A
report came out today evaluating sex education in Texas, where teaching
abstinence is the norm, and the findings are not promising.
After
two years of studying instructional materials from 990 school
districts, the watchdog group Texas Freedom Network determined that
abstinence-only is taught in 94 percent of Texas schools, and that
schools use shame, shame's bff religion, and scare tactics to
discourage students from having sex, and some schools are reinforcing negative gender stereotypes.
Furthermore, 41 percent of materials used
for teaching about condoms and prevention of STDs in Texas schools
contain factual errors. One school district is teaching eighth graders
that when used properly, condoms are only 80 percent effective in
preventing pregancy. The actual effective rate is more like 97-98
percent.
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