Righting Sex Ed. Wrongs

When the Kansas board of education was dominated by a majority of conservatives they went about enacting policies that eliminated sex education, questioned the validity of evolution, and hired school administrators with no experience in...wait for it...school administration.

Now with a moderate majority the board is trying to fix some of the blunders of its predecessors.

From a piece on CNN.com:

One rescinded policy recommended that schools stress abstinence until marriage, while the other urged school districts to get parental permission before students could attend human sexuality classes.

On a 6-3 vote, the board replaced the policies with one that recommends "abstinence plus" sex education programs and leaves it up to the state's 296 school districts to decide whether to get parental permission.

The "abstinence plus" program stresses abstinence before marriage, while also urging schools to give students information about birth control and prevention of sexually transmitted diseases.

This has got to be welcome news for the people of Kansas after so much paranoid sex ridiculousness in the past.

It also makes you wonder what other sorts of reasonable decisions would be made if you let a moderate majority make policy. I'm probably being too optimistic, but a boy can dream.

Read more - CNN.com: Kansas Board of Ed. erases conservative sex ed policies

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