"above the waist" approach to sex education
New Sex Ed Funding Ends Decade of Abstinence-Only National Abstinence Education Association estimates 169 abstinence programs serving 1 million teens nationwide will lose millions in funding. Those programs have received about $100 million a year in direct funds since 2005.
I was there (b 1949) so I can speak of it
It consisted of:
Federal funding for all of this …. zero
Frankly I think we were all better off!
It consisted of:
- A booklet about how periods work … the sperm and the egg, etc
- A film in health class about syphilis (black and white (thankfully!!) … I think from WW II))
- A schoolmate had a http://goo.gl/LoOu] Visible Woman Kit (this was the 8th grade) and he tried splainin’ how the parts worked.
Federal funding for all of this …. zero
Frankly I think we were all better off!
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