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, however, is what public schools are actually teaching students about sexuality education in their classrooms.
Until now.
A new report from the Texas Freedom Network Education Fund - 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.
* Teaching young people about sexuality and health should be serious business. But you wouldn’t know that from materials used in many Texas classrooms.
*Texas Freedom Network Education Fund and “Just Say Don’t Know” are not sponsored by or affiliated with CLER Ministries.
