UNITED STATES: Just Say Don’t Know: Sexuality Education in Texas Public Schools

Submitted by crinadmin on Wed, 25/02/2009 - 05:27

Texas has long been held up as the poster child for abstinence-only sexuality education. In fact, Texas consistently leads the nation by a wide margin in federal abstinence education dollars more than $18 million in 2007 alone. What has not been known until this study, however, is what public schools are actually teaching students about sexuality education in their classrooms. And the news is not good.

Just Say Don’t Know: Sexuality Education in Texas Public Schools conclusively demonstrates that Texas is failing families and students when it comes to sexuality education. Classrooms are perpetuating a “conspiracy of silence” that robs young people of the reliable information they need to make responsible life decisions. Even worse, the information students do receive about sexuality and health is often grossly distorted or simply wrong.

Further information

An International Human Right: Sexuality Education for Adolescents in Schools (October 2008)
HIV and AIDS: US senate votes to end abstinence clause on funding (10 September 2007)
Human Rights Watch: The Less They Know, the Better: Abstinence-Only HIV/AIDS Programmes in Uganda (March 2005)

pdf: http://www.crin.org/docs/SexEdRort09_web.pdf

Organisation:

Texas Freedom Network

Attachment Link:

http://www.crin.org/docs/SexEdRort09_web.pdf

Countries

United States

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