Thursday, August 24, 2006

pregnancy, math, and reading

Here's a quote from an article about the Canton, Ohio school board deciding to add contraception information to its abstinence-only sex ed program after it was revealed that 13% of female students at one high school were pregnant in 2005. Apparently their health books are from 1988:
"If we had math books from 1988, reading books from 1988, as a parent, I would be furious," said Patty Rafailedes, a physical education teacher.
I recognize that 18-year-old books would be falling apart, but my first thought upon reading that quote was: They CHANGED math and reading??

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