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Officials with the Crane Independent School District are meeting to discuss their sex education program after nearly two dozen cases of Chlamydia were reported among the high school student body.

KOSA-TV reported the Crane Independent School District sent a letter to parents last week regarding 20 cases of chlamydia among the Crane High School student population, which totals about 300 students.

Those letters were sent to the parents of both senior and junior students as a precaution. The Texas Department of State Health Services notified both Crane and Upton County officials after a significant numbers of cases were identified.

The high school has three days of sex education in the fall semester for students, with the curriculum including abstinence. Crane ISD Superintendent Jim T. Rumage cited abstinence as a useful methodology for keeping kids away from sexual activity in a phone interview Monday.


“If kids are not having any sexual activity, they can’t get this disease … That’s not a bad program,” Rumage said.

andy7171 wrote:Um. Is abstinence not an option?

dbackjon wrote:

andy7171 wrote:Um. Is abstinence not an option?

It should be - but not as the only sex-ed option. They need to acknowledge that at least 50% of high schoolers are not virgins.

GannonFan wrote:I don't get why this is a story. The school district has a 3 day course in sex ed, and they mention abstinence during the course. Any sex ed course in America is going to at least mention abstinence. As long as it's not exclusively abstinence, and clearly they talk about other things, why is this a story?

CID1990 wrote:

GannonFan wrote:I don't get why this is a story. The school district has a 3 day course in sex ed, and they mention abstinence during the course. Any sex ed course in America is going to at least mention abstinence. As long as it's not exclusively abstinence, and clearly they talk about other things, why is this a story?

Because Felchy, that's why.

Aho Old Guy wrote:I reckon dem Texans learnt there abstinence from duh ambassader, Bristol Palin.

AZGrizFan wrote:

Aho Old Guy wrote:I reckon dem Texans learnt there abstinence from duh ambassader, Bristol Palin.

Yeah. I mean, she could have just gone the dipshit democrat route and killed the kid before it was born, right? I mean, class donk: take the easy way out.

Chlamydia is not a flower.

andy7171 wrote:Who better to be an "Ambassador for Abstinence" than someone who learned the hard way that its really not worth it?

Aho Old Guy wrote:

AZGrizFan wrote:
Yeah. I mean, she could have just gone the dipshit democrat route and killed the kid before it was born, right? I mean, class donk: take the easy way out.

Quite a big reach and strawman, there, Einstein Angry, much?

You're really good at massive false-equivalencies, too, AZ.
Maybe your propaganda masters would have been better served to choose someone other than an unmarried teenage mother as their "Ambassador of Abstinence"

It was so stupid and hypocritical ... feel free to rant your ass off when people make fun of it.

We'll laugh at that, too.

CID1990 wrote:

Aho Old Guy wrote:
Quite a big reach and strawman, there, Einstein Angry, much?

You're really good at massive false-equivalencies, too, AZ.
Maybe your propaganda masters would have been better served to choose someone other than an unmarried teenage mother as their "Ambassador of Abstinence"

It was so stupid and hypocritical ... feel free to rant your ass off when people make fun of it.

We'll laugh at that, too.

Hey Than I think we've found your photonegative!

kalm wrote:The "evolved" christian adults in this town are the ones in dire need of non-abstinence sex education.

Aho Old Guy wrote:

AZGrizFan wrote:
Yeah. I mean, she could have just gone the dipshit democrat route and killed the kid before it was born, right? I mean, class donk: take the easy way out.

Quite a big reach and strawman, there, Einstein Angry, much?

You're really good at massive false-equivalencies, too, AZ.
Maybe your propaganda masters would have been better served to choose someone other than an unmarried teenage mother as their "Ambassador of Abstinence"

It was so stupid and hypocritical ... feel free to rant your ass off when people make fun of it.

We'll laugh at that, too.

GannonFan wrote:

kalm wrote:The "evolved" christian adults in this town are the ones in dire need of non-abstinence sex education.

Based on what evidence?

A small high school in west Texas is changing their sex-ed curriculum after a chlamydia outbreak. Crane High School says about 20 students have the sexually transmitted disease.

The CDC calls it, "epidemic proportions."

Monday, school district officials met to discuss their 3-day course on abstinence. They now want to include a discussion on the risks of STDs.

Last week the school sent letters home to parents, letting them know about the problem. “We do have an abstinence curriculum, and that evidently ain't working,” says Jim Rumage, Crane Independent School District Superintendent.

“We need to do all we can, although it’s the parents' responsibility to educate their kids on sexual education.” The school board will vote May 19th on the changes to the sex-ed curriculum.

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