Good news for home ec

[sigma7]

This may seem impossible to you, but it’s true.

Sixty-five — again, 65 — of Timken High School’s 490 girl students are pregnant.

That’s a number confirmed by Principal Kim Redmond, whose staff, in less than a week, will inherit a problem it had no part in causing.

Whose fault is it that more than 13 percent of Timken’s girls are with child? Some would say fault-finding isn’t a fruitful exercise, but in this case, it’s critical. Suspects range from movies, TV and video games to lazy parents and lax discipline. Only one thing is sure: Schools don’t impregnate children.

“This has gotten to horrible proportions,” said Redmond. “I wish I knew the answer to why it’s happening.”

*headdesk* Surely you don't need it explained. ...Or maybe that's the problem....

"Video games?" ...I'm pretty sure that Grand Theft Auto did not impregnate your children, even with the Rumble Pak on.

Comments

[opheliasclone.livejournal.com]

It's not the cut funding that bothers me. It's the insistence on funding only abstinence-based sex ed on a federal (and often state) level. The message many kids get is that condoms don't work and other forms of pregnancy prevention are unavailable to them. But having sex will piss off their parents and therefore make them seem cooler to other high school kids.

Unfortunately, this is Darwinism reversed.