Im like 90% sure that quote violates lemmy.world’s rules against porn.
Ive had conversations about similar books, but I still dont get it. I honestly dont understand why that belongs within 300 feet of a school.
A quick search shows that around 6% of teens get pregnant, and around half were accidental. This number includes teens out of highschool 18-19. So we can assume the number of people in highschool will be lower. The percentage of unexpected/unwanted will rise.
I know this may sound odd talking about a hetero experience when it comes to a gay book, but my highschool experience with anything sex education was almost strictly abstinence.
Children are just going to do things because they don’t understand the consequences. You say “don’t do it” and people will do it just to spite you. You tell them “unprotected sex will get you STI’s that will kill you” and while the number of people having sex barely changes, both STI rates and unwanted pregnancy rates drop. It is wild what a tiny amount of sex education can do to save people’s lives.
Anyways as long as it’s a culture war issue and that topic can’t even be brought to the table then I don’t care about people prudish attitudes, and they can get bent. I’m giving them the same amount of respect they’ll give me. If we aren’t going to teach kids then having at least something that kids MIGHT want to read that has ANY sex education in it is a victory. There is no reason why other people’s religious views should effect other people’s children. If you want your child to have a higher chance of being raped then it should be up to the parents to make sure the school knows to not put them in sex education, not the other way around. It is better for every metric, out side of “feelings”, that sex education is better for children to have.
I thought school was supposed to be about preparing children for adulthood. Or has conservatism become wanting school to be nothing but a state sponsored day care?
I thought school was supposed to be about preparing children for adulthood.
No. If school was meant for that, we would focus on skills such as driving, balancing a checkbook, cooking food, etc. School is about preparing you for employment.
To be fair, I had a woodworking class, cooking class, auto class, and I also got into the school’s media team where I learned to edit videos. There technically was a health class with a week of bad sex education.
So maybe my school was “built different” but I am going to still choose to believe it was trash tier from the other schools I went to before it.
So you don’t actually care about making good policy, you just want to be mad?
What? I said “as long as it’s a culture war issue.” meaning that people are playing dirty, and refuse to not play dirty.
So I am saying restricting sex education is a bad policy, and the moral thing to do is to teach children, specifically young adults, about the world is a good thing. The policy I’m advocating for is good sex education, and conservatives want to argue for a system that allows for more pederasty. How can I not be against that?
But “good” policy is subjective. Talking policy in a partisan space like this won’t move anyone. I would be screaming into a void.