A Question for the Candidates

A short dramatization followed by our question for all Democratic candidates.

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• politics
• democrat
• debate
• question
• abstanince

[pierrethepoet]

Nice video, and I'm sorry you have to put up with such bs in your class. . .

[jesi76082]

Yeah, thanks. But it only comes around once a year...unless you're taking health & a science class at the same time, then you sit through it twice a year.

[jesi76082]

No, I mispoke. What I meant to say was that most boys aren't going to warn their girlfriends of the consequences they could face after they have sex. I was running out of room in my comment, I had to make my comments shorter.

[Sheblobbers]

thank you very much. I know that this isn't my account, but I'm the other chick on the video :-)

[Sheblobbers]

Basically what we are getting at, is that information needs to be presented. Sex education is being taught in schools today, no matter what we think about it. The problem is, that only abstinence is being taught, and we are being told that condoms don't work, so they aren't being used. We believe that information needs to be presented in an unbiased fashion, which is not what is happening today.

[jesi76082]

We believe that students should be given the information about sex, condoms, pregnancy, statistics and such, but no one should blantantly tell them that sex is wrong and you shouldn't do it no matter what. Which is exactly what our school does, as demonstrated in the video. That may have been a dramatization, but it was not over-dramatized. That is how it goes at our school. Well, we threw the Ann Coulter book bit in, but the rest was taken from what we've heard in the sex ed class.

[jesi76082]

This is why we are asking this question. The schools, ours at least, are imposing their view of Abstinence-Only on the students.

[jesi76082]

And then had sex, not knowing the consequences or anything. Most boys are not going to tell a girl that they shouldn't have sex. Not knowing about options and risks greatly increases a chance that a girl will be taken advantage of. And when parents don't tell their children that, thinking they will remain pure until marriage, the exact opposite happens.

[jesi76082]

Because, especially where we come from no one talks about sex. There are kids at our school who didn't have an inkling about what it was until well after they got into High School. Before that all sex education was offered but you had to have parent permission. I know several teens who didn't know about sex until they had a boyfriend. They didn't know the dangers, the risk, and were taught completely by their boyfriend.

[jesi76082]

Yeah...our question kicks a lot o' ass.