Determined To Get It Wrong
Congratulations are in order for a TX administration that rivals the national one for being determined. Getting it wrong is no impediment if you're a political troglodyte.
If teens are going to go ahead and have sex, in this state they will have to 'pay for it'.
The voters in this country have a responsibility to do something about this kind of arrogant ignorance. They need to turn the state government over to responsible adults. When a program fails, it needs to be changed. When the lives of our kids are at stake, we can't ignore that our taxes are being used to support programs that harm them.
Turning the idiots out is a prerequisite.
If teens are going to go ahead and have sex, in this state they will have to 'pay for it'.
Texas spent a nation-high $17 million last year for abstinence education programs that continue to stir debate about whether classes promoting virginity before marriage work in public schools.
Federal statistics in June showed that 52.9 percent of Texas students in ninth through 12th grades had sexual intercourse, compared with 47.8 nationally. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention also reported that Texas youths are less likely to use condoms.
Public schools in Texas are not required to offer sex education, but those that do must make the lessons abstinence-focused. Instructions about condoms are couched in terms of how often they fail, according to state law.
Abstinence-only supporters say more comprehensive sex education sends a mixed message to teenagers that having sex at their age is fine, while opponents cite surveys that they say prove abstinence lessons are failing.
Regardless, a change in Texas policy does not appear likely, the Austin American-Statesman reported Sunday.
The voters in this country have a responsibility to do something about this kind of arrogant ignorance. They need to turn the state government over to responsible adults. When a program fails, it needs to be changed. When the lives of our kids are at stake, we can't ignore that our taxes are being used to support programs that harm them.
Turning the idiots out is a prerequisite.
Labels: Disinformation, Moron, Separation of Church and State
posted by Ruth at 3:43 AM
2 Comments:
It's all part of the program. They need poor people to produce ever more poor people willing to work for peanuts, else capitalism crumbles.
They need to turn the state government over to responsible adults.
I'm afraid there aren't too many of those in Texas these days, and certainly fewer in any position to actually run the Lege, as Molly Ivins used to call it. I'd say I'm better off since I moved to Louisiana, but it's not much different here.
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