Parents want complete sex ed
Friday, February 29th, 2008
By Staff
Parents in Chapel Hill and Carrboro did it years ago. Of course. Parents in Durham, Buncombe, Orange and Guilford counties did too.
They persuaded schools to heed medical research and teach comprehensive sex education, instead of the abstinence program that the state replaced it with 10 years ago.
Today, students in those counties and about five others are taught to abstain from sex, but they also receive medically accurate information about topics such as contraceptives, sexual orientation and disease control.
Finally, finally, a group of Cumberland County parents, educators and activists is prepping for the same kind of push here.
Debbie Liebers — who calls herself a recycled mom because she has children who range from 32 to 5 — is one of those parents.
Like many people in Cumberland County, Liebers didn’t realize that the General Assembly did away with comprehensive sex education until years after it happened.
This past December, she finally read a copy of the abstinence curriculum that it was replaced with and was bothered as much by what was put in as what was left out.
“It just emphasizes, ‘don’t do it, don’t do it, don’t do it,’” she says. (more…)
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