I have tried to keep the blog "free" of work "stuff." Well, I just have to share this! This fall, I embarked on a new project. I am working with a "liberal" group out of Austin to study the state of sexuality education in the state of Texas. What we did - sent out an open records request (they have to, by law, respond) and asked school districts to provide information on textbooks, teaching material, who is teaching sexuality, school board policies, school health advisory council policy recommendations, etc. Of course this is time consuming for the school districts, but it has proved, with 50% response rate, to be utmost interesting. The intern working on the project spoke with a superintendent yesterday, and this is what he said: they do not adhere to laws they don’t agree with in their community. They are a small rural school district. Drug problems arose only when we started teaching about drugs, and similarly if you teach about sex kids will start having sex. They don’t have any pregnancy problems in their district. Kids get smacked if they don’t behave - that’s how their community is, he’d be surprised if there was a 6th grader who had been kissed. This is why I love my work! I just had to share.
By the way, just need to download pictures from the weekend and I have more posting to do!
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WOW - that is absolutely HILARIOUS Kel!!! Haha! Why does that not surprise me though??? Ask the guy if the number of fires in his community went up after teaching the students fire safety... ;-)
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