Community Action Updates
January 2008
| Board Backs Birth Control Component of Biology Class |
| Park Ridge, IL Parents of a few Maine South High School Students are condemning the teaching of birth control in a freshman biology class, but school administrators are standing behind the lesson.1 The parents allege that birth control is being taught “at the expense of more important educational topics” and said they ... |
| Abstinence-only Education is Failing Us, Students and Public Officials Say |
| Cumberland County, NJ Teenagers from the county with the highest teen pregnancy rates in the state say that abstinence-only programs are failing them, a report from the county’s Human Services Advisory Council announced.1 A survey of 209 teens from the Cumberland County, NJ found that one quarter supported teaching about contraception ... |
| District Opinions Divided on Future of Sex Education, Fear Loss of Local Control |
| Batesburg-Leesville, SC The Batesburg-Leesville area schools are considering replacing their current sex education with a fear-based, abstinence-only-until-marriage program entitled Worth the Wait. School board members, administrators, and a district committee are debating whether to make improvements to the current curriculum, which emphasizes abstinence, or scrap it in favor of Worth the ... |
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