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KANSAS SCHOOLS
Students, teachers push for sex education
Bill includes opt-out provision
Students, teachers, parents and pastors converged Tuesday on the Statehouse to insist on a law requiring sex education in Kansas public schools.
The issue fell to the Senate Education Committee because the Kansas State Board of Education allowed to expire a mandate in place since 1987 that local school districts offer human sexuality classes. Most districts have continued teaching sex education, but there is nothing to prevent all 300 from dropping the curriculum.
Toni Witt, a senior at Wichita East High School, said elimination of school-based programs would force many students to learn about sex from peers, television, music, books and magazines.
“Is that the way we want our children to learn about sex?” she said. “We need to learn — and not just by firsthand experience — about sex.”
Under Senate Bill 508, local school boards would continue to provide age-appropriate instruction in elementary and secondary schools. Information offered to students would deal with abstinence and sexually transmitted diseases, especially AIDS. The bill includes an opt-out feature for students who want to be excused. Nothing in a district’s curriculum could be construed as teaching birth control methods.
The bill’s lone opponent was Sandy Pickert, executive director of Abstinence Education in Wichita.
“Teens who are sexually active need more than the Band-Aid of a condom,” she said.
Debra Rukes, director of the Topeka YWCA’s teen pregnancy prevention program, said the reality is that students need abstinence-plus programs in school. Two-thirds of teens have sex by the time they are high school seniors, and 30 percent of women get pregnant by age 20, she said.
Erick Jensen, a science teacher in Kansas City, Kan., said schools must counter misguided peer advice. A surprising umber of students think pregnancy can be avoided if they have intercourse while standing up, he said.
“Having factual, medically accurate and age-appropriate curriculum and materials will help alleviate the urban legends.”
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