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Texas Monthly

About That Outbreak of Chlamydia in West Texas...
by HANNAH SMOTHERS
FRI MAY 8, 2015

Crane High School in West Texas has been in headlines this week after an outbreak of Chlamydia infected 20 students. Since Crane only has a total student population of about 300, the 1/15 infection rate was severe enough to prompt school administrators to send a letter home to parents, and spur a revisitation of their current sex education program.

Crane High’s current sex ed program is a three-day long course taught each fall. Like most schools in the state, it’s abstinence-based, which means students are taught that abstaining from sex is the only way to prevent unintended consequences, and they learn nothing about condoms or other forms of protection and birth control.

This kind of program is popular around Texas, especially since the mandatory health class was dropped from the high school graduation requirements back in 2009. Despite research that shows comprehensive, or abstinence-plus, curricula are much more effective at teaching teenagers how to engage in healthy, safe sex, about 75 percent of Texas school districts use abstinence-based programs. The thinking is that if kids aren’t presented with information on how to have safe sex, or are scared out of the act altogether with threats of possible disease and depression, they’ll put off losing their virginity until they’re older, or married.

Or as Crane ISD Superintendent Jim Rumage put it in an interview with the San Antonio Express-News, “If kids are not having any sexual activity, they can’t get this disease. That’s not a bad program.”

It’s hard to say whether or not it’s a direct result of an education that neglects to teach students what a condom is, or how to use one, but Texas ranks as the eighth-worst state in the country for STI transmission rates. Specifically, the Chlamydia rate in Texas in 2013 was 473.1 per 100,000 residents, compared to a nationwide rate of 456.7. Crane County, home to Crane High School, has a rate below the national and state averages, at 356.2 per 100,000 residents, but surrounding West Texas counties like Midland and Ector have Chlamydia rates high enough to rank them on a national scale.

Texas ranks even more poorly when it comes to teen pregnancy, with the third highest rate in the country behind New Mexico and Mississippi. Teen pregnancy has been on the decline nationwide since rates peaked in 1991, but Texas is lagging far behind.

In this state, when non-mandated sex education courses are taught, they aren’t required to be medically accurate, are allowed to promote religion, are allowed to promote negative ideas about sexual orientation, and must be age-appropriate, according to a state policy brief by Guttmacher. HIV prevention courses also aren’t mandated, but when they are taught, they stress abstinence but do cover condom use.

This is all fine, if you’re someone like Dr. Stuart Spitzer, the state representative who recently put legislative weight behind a House budget that would move $3 million from HIV prevention programs to abstinence education. “My goal is for everyone to be abstinent until they are married,” Spitzer said on the House floor. It’s the same kind of declaration as Crane ISD Superintendent Jim Rumage’s — if kids would just keep their body parts to themselves, we wouldn’t have a problem to educate against in the first place.

But at the local level, in towns where outbreaks like the one at Crane High School have hit, or towns with especially high teen pregnancy rates, things look a bit different. Slowly, due to concern and outrage from parents who say the education their kids receive isn’t working, more Texas schools are turning to comprehensive and abstinence-plus programs. The change isn’t coming in sweeping top-down legislation from lawmakers — it’s coming school by school, all over the state.

On May 19, school officials at Crane High will recommend a new sex ed curriculum to the school board. There’s no way of knowing what that recommended curriculum will look like, but there’s a pretty good chance abstinence-plus education might be on the horizon for Crane ISD.


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Not schools job! That's parents jobs!

Why aren't you criticizing their parents?


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Gatorgordo: The article you quoted said nothing about EVANGELICALS (bold emphasis mine). Ignorant smear attempt on your part; do us all a favor and take some remedial reading classes......
 
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Gatorgordo: The article you quoted said nothing about EVANGELICALS (bold emphasis mine). Ignorant smear attempt on your part; do us all a favor and take some remedial reading classes......


Perhaps you know more about Texas politics and Texas evangelical's political position than I do but I doubt it. So your comment is just a reflection of your ignorance.


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Not schools job! That's parents jobs!

Why aren't you criticizing their parents?


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The obvious answer is because parents aren't doing their job and deserve criticism but that doesn't keep teenagers from fucking.

I don't know about you, but I and nearly every other straight teen age boy I know and knew has one thing on his mind when it comes to girls and it ain't discussing the weather.

Kids are going to fuck, you can't fool mother nature.

Give those facts, and the obviously abysmal failure of many parents to do the job, school systems tried to fill in the gaps, but due to the nuts who seem to live with a sexless world view until marriage (if then) the school courses are laughable. Certainly abstinence works, but kids don't want to be abstinent as a rule, so why not give them ALL the information they need. I will admit that ANY sex education in schools (assuming they at least stick to the facts) is probably better than none at home but if it is to be taught, then the kids should be taught all they need to know. There should be an opt-out for those parents who think their precious darlings would never do such a thing. Yeah, right.

I'll recount a short and true story. One friend of mine, and 2 acquaintances were driving home from attending an away High School Football game. One said his daughter. about 16, was going to the doctor next week to get birth control. My friend, the driver, kept quiet. The other genius said, "Well, all you are doing is just letting her know that it is alright to have sex". The other one said, "No, I just don't want to have my unmarried teenage daughter pregnant, like yours." The rest of the ride was very silent.

I've got one son and two daughters, and I can tell anyone from experience, the old saying holds true:

"If you've got a son all you have to worry about is one dick, if you've got a daughter, you have to worry about every dick in the world."


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Schools are failing terribly at what they are supposed to do.

Sex education is a parents job! If parents don't cloth kids properly are schools supposed to? Schools are already feeding kids......

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Schools are failing terribly at what they are supposed to do.

Sex education is a parents job! If parents don't cloth kids properly are schools supposed to? Schools are already feeding kids......

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Failing? Not really, best HS in the US is in Dallas. Could all of our schools be better? Of course. When did you attend the last School District meeting? Willing to raise your property taxes to fund better schools?

If parents don't "cloth" (sic) kids properly, schools will send them home, if they still can't or don't do it, the state, probably via CPS, will take over.

AFA "Schools are already feeding kids.....", I suppose you would rather have kids go hungry.....


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Gatorgordo: Quit avoiding the question. Where, specifically, was the word 'evangelicals' in the article you quoted? It has nothing to do with Texas; just simple reading comprehension skills. Are you that ignorant?
 
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C'mon GG, it is obviously not the fault of local evangelicals who don't want evolution taught in their schools. It is the government's fault! See! Oh, wait! In a democracy, we ARE the government. Well, what the hell, it's obviously someone else's fault!
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Gatorgordo: Quit avoiding the question. Where, specifically, was the word 'evangelicals' in the article you quoted? It has nothing to do with Texas; just simple reading comprehension skills. Are you that ignorant?


Well, let's get to the facts about YOUR abysmal reading comprehension.

First of all, your first stupid post in this thread was not a question so it would be extremely difficult for me to "avoid" a non-existent question. I'm good, but not Kreskin. homer

Second, referring to your second stupid post, I never said the word "evangelicals" was in the article. homer

So after you learn to read, and then understand how to post a valid response, I might choose to enlighten you. But, generally speaking, I don't waste my time on stupid assholes. So don't bother trying to learn comprehension. wave


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As I said on another thread, today's Teabaggers are yesterdays Evangelicals.
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Damn Charlie you sure are an asshole, you come by that natural?

The government can raise your kids, I think I'll raise mine. It doesn't take village.....it takes two parents.
 
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Damn Charlie you sure are an asshole, you come by that natural?

The government can raise your kids, I think I'll raise mine. It doesn't take village.....it takes two parents.


No, it's dealing with morons like you that made me that way. If I wanted more intelligent responses than yours, I'd fart. Is the use of platitudes your life's goal?


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Damn Charlie you sure are an asshole, you come by that natural?

The government can raise your kids, I think I'll raise mine. It doesn't take village.....it takes two parents.


No, it's dealing with morons like you that made me that way. If I wanted more intelligent responses than yours, I'd fart. Is the use of platitudes your life's goal?


Well bless your heart. Did your Mommy tell you just how special you are?


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If not for Playboy I would have had no sex ed.
 
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