"Teaching"

The No Child Left Behind Act forces public schools to meet certain federal standards in order to receive funding. After reading this report by my Representative in the House, Henry Waxman (and boy am I proud to say that), one wonders if the federal "abstinence-only" education programs savaged therein need to may any basic standards of truth or legitimacy. Among the many things being taught to children (and using taxpayer money to do it):

-Condoms do not prevent HIV 31% of the time.
-Condoms do not prevent pregnancy 14% of the time. (which is weird, because I've had sex with a condom more than 7 times, and yet do not have a kid. I guess I'm lucky.)
-10% of women who receive abortions will become sterile.
-A 43 day-old fetus is "a thinking person."
-Women need "financial support," while men need "admiration."
-HIV can be acquired through sweat or tears.
-Women are more prone to suicide following an abortion.
-An abortion makes premature birth in subsequent pregnancies more likely.

All of these are blatantly false, and are really blatant scare tactics by the administrators who want to use fear to push their abstinence-only agenda. They clearly do not feel confident enough in the "it's better to wait" argument in and of itself, and have to resort to scaring the living bejeebus out of their students. Why don't they trust kids to make the right choices? Why don't they trust the value of Christian celibacy? Why lie?

Well, maybe because they know that their entire worldview is based on horseshit.

It's just a theory.