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Update to school’s abstinence program urged
Teen pregnancy rate in city continues to be high

BY TATIANA ZARNOWSKI Gazette Reporter

    As the pregnancy rate for teens in Schenectady County remains high, at least one Schenectady school board member would like to explore whether the abstinence-based sex education curriculum should be updated.
    Cheryl Nechamen, who pushed for the district to change its opt-in policy so more children would take sex education, believes sex education is an important part of lowering the area’s teen pregnancy rate. Her change was passed last fall, and at the same time Nechamen noticed the sex education curriculum was last updated in the 1990s.
    “We looked at the curriculum and said, ‘It looks kind of outdated now,’” she recalled. She’d like the district to review the program “to make sure that we’re really teaching what we want to be taught.”
    Schenectady County’s teenage pregnancy rate has been high for years. In the most recent figures released by the state Department of Health, for 2009, its pregnancy rate topped those in Albany, Saratoga and Schoharie counties.
    Compared with Fulton and Montgomery counties, Schenectady’s rate was higher for girls ages 15 to 17 but lower for teens aged 18 and 19.
    Those figures show that 32.9 girls per 1,000 aged 15 to 17 got pregnant in Schenectady County in 2009. For teens ages 18 and 19 the figure was 94 per 1,000.
    Schenectady City School District offi cials say abstinence is the best policy, but a health teacher acknowledges that no matter what they learn in school, some teens can’t resist the strong pressures on the outside — from peers, from music, movies and now even a reality show about teen mothers.
    “Some kids just bow to it and don’t know how to react to it,” said Meribeth Byrne, a middle school health teacher.
    From Byrne’s 10-year experience teaching sex education — the district’s program is called Family Life — most of the middle-schoolers she sees haven’t had sex, and many of them are completely naive about it.
    Still, a few have had some sexual experience, including some negative consequences.
    “Some kids really know a lot about [sexually transmitted infections] because of experience that they have or in their family.”
    A few middle-schoolers get pregnant, though not many.
    According to the Health Department, six children between ages 10 and 14 in Schenectady County got pregnant in 2009.
    Byrne thinks the girls who got pregnant did understand about sex and how to get pregnant.
    “I don’t believe it’s ignorance, to be honest with you,” she said. “They’ve all been taught the subject matter, so I think the biggest influence is what happens when they leave school.”
ADVISING ABSTINENCE
    The district teaches abstinence from all sexual contact, not just intercourse, because some sexually transmitted infections can be spread through oral and anal sex.
    “We talk about things like how to show affection appropriately,” Byrne said.
    In seventh grade, Family Life is a structured 18-day program in the 20-week health class; highschoolers also take sex education in health class, usually during 10th grade. In high school, the program has more flexibility, with teachers developing their own unit and possibly changing it, depending on what students want to talk about, Byrne said.
    Seventh-grade teachers spend about half the unit teaching about puberty and the reproductive system, the male and female anatomy, fertilization and the embryonic and fetal growth stages.
    They talk about contraception methods for one class period.
    “We do not display anything; we do not do any demonstrations” at either the middle school or high school levels, Byrne said.
    High-schoolers explore sex education at a higher level, talking more about the consequences of having sex. Pregnancy is more common among high school-aged girls, with 105 girls ages 15 to 17 in Schenectady County getting pregnant in 2009, according to the state Department of Health. Among 18- and 19-year-olds, the figure was 204. About half of all teen pregnancies ended in abortion, the state DOH says.
    In general, teen pregnancy is higher in the counties that have larger cities. “It’s just the nature of growing up in the city,” Byrne said.
    “A lot of the kids might not have the home base that they really need to help them out.” Some of the focus in the sex education program is on having a support system, especially trusted adults.
    “Unfortunately, a lot of students don’t have that.”
    Then again, it’s not new that teens are having sex; perhaps it’s just more visible today because of TV shows that talk frankly about sex, and casual conversations that people have, Byrne said. “Back when I was young, nobody ever really talked about it.”
PLANNED PARENTHOOD
    Planned Parenthood also offers an in-school enrichment program on abstinence and contraception at no cost to school districts, but Schenectady schools have never invited the organization in, said district spokeswoman Karen Corona.
    The program recently generated controversy in nearby Shenendehowa Central School District. A group of parents lobbied for the long-running program to be removed from schools, and it was. Then people on the other side of the fence, including parents, current and former students and community members, objected to the program’s removal.
    Schenectady has talked about the Planned Parenthood program, Byrne said.
    “We have had many discussions about Planned Parenthood coming in,” she said.
    But the Schenectady district hasn’t used Planned Parenthood because of the organization’s controversial nature. Some people oppose Planned Parenthood because some of its clinics perform abortions.
    The organization also offers testing and treatment for HIV and sexually transmitted diseases for women and men, annual gynecological exams for women, birth control and pregnancy tests.
    And it offers sex education information for parents to share with their children, and for teens to view themselves, at http://www.plannedparenthood.org/ppmh. ...................>>>>....................>>>>..................http://www.dailygazette.net/De.....r00100&AppName=1
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“I don’t believe it’s ignorance, to be honest with you,” she said. “They’ve all been taught the subject matter, so I think the biggest influence is what happens when they leave school.”


So again there is proof that ANY sex education does not work! They are taught. Show pictures. Given written information. Shown the consequences.....and  yet they still choose SEX!! From reading this article, it leads one to believe that it is the 'blacks, immigrants and indigent' kids that are reproducing like rabbits.

God bless Margaret Sanger

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On blacks, immigrants and indigents:
"...human weeds,' 'reckless breeders,' 'spawning... human beings who never should have been born."  Margaret Sanger, Pivot of Civilization, referring to immigrants and poor people

On sterilization & racial purification:
Sanger believed that, for the purpose of racial "purification," couples should be rewarded who chose sterilization. Birth Control in America, The Career of Margaret Sanger, by David Kennedy, p. 117, quoting a 1923 Sanger speech.

On the right of married couples to bear children:
Couples should be required to submit applications to have a child, she wrote in her "Plan for Peace." Birth Control Review, April 1932

On the purpose of birth control:
The purpose in promoting birth control was "to create a race of thoroughbreds," she wrote in the Birth Control Review, Nov. 1921 (p. 2)

On the rights of the handicapped and mentally ill, and racial minorities:
"More children from the fit, less from the unfit -- that is the chief aim of birth control." Birth Control Review, May 1919, p. 12

On religious convictions regarding sex outside of marriage:
"This book aims to answer the needs expressed in thousands on thousands of letters to me in the solution of marriage problems... Knowledge of sex truths frankly and plainly presented cannot possibly injure healthy, normal, young minds. Concealment, suppression, futile attempts to veil the unveilable - these work injury, as they seldom succeed and only render those who indulge in them ridiculous. For myself, I have full confidence in the cleanliness, the open-mindedness, the promise of the younger generation." Margaret Sanger, Happiness in Marriage (Bretano's, New York, 1927)

On the extermination of blacks:
"We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population," she said, "if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members." Woman's Body, Woman's Right: A Social History of Birth Control in America, by Linda Gordon

On respecting the rights of the mentally ill:
In her "Plan for Peace," Sanger outlined her strategy for eradication of those she deemed "feebleminded." Among the steps included in her evil scheme were immigration restrictions; compulsory sterilization; segregation to a lifetime of farm work; etc. Birth Control Review, April 1932, p. 107

On adultery:
A woman's physical satisfaction was more important than any marriage vow, Sanger believed. Birth Control in America, p. 11

On marital sex:
"The marriage bed is the most degenerating influence in the social order," Sanger said. (p. 23) [Quite the opposite of God's view on the matter: "Marriage is honorable in all, and the bed undefiled; but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge." (Hebrews 13:4)

On abortion:
"Criminal' abortions arise from a perverted sex relationship under the stress of economic necessity, and their greatest frequency is among married women." The Woman Rebel - No Gods, No Masters, May 1914, Vol. 1, No. 3.

On the YMCA and YWCA:
"...brothels of the Spirit and morgues of Freedom!"), The Woman Rebel - No Gods, No Masters, May 1914, Vol. 1, No. 3.

On the Catholic Church's view of contraception:
"...enforce SUBJUGATION by TURNING WOMAN INTO A MERE INCUBATOR." The Woman Rebel - No Gods, No Masters, May 1914, Vol. 1, No. 3.

On motherhood:
"I cannot refrain from saying that women must come to recognize there is some function of womanhood other than being a child-bearing machine." What Every Girl Should Know, by Margaret Sanger (Max Maisel, Publisher, 1915) [Jesus said: "Daughters of Jerusalem, weep... for your children. For, behold, the days are coming, in which they shall say, Blessed (happy) are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the breasts which never gave suck." (Luke 23:24)]

"The most merciful thing that a large family does to one of its infant members is to kill it." Margaret Sanger, Women and the New Race (Eugenics Publ. Co., 1920, 1923)
http://www.dianedew.com/sanger.htm



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how about 'THE GOVERNMENT ISN'T GOING TO FEED YOUR CHILDREN, AND THE BABY DADDY IS LEAVING, AND HAVING A BABY DOESN'T MEAN YOU HAVE WORTH AS A BABY MAKER'

fear the baby making.....just run in the opposite direction....no matter what your parents did/not say, baby making is for life and dangerous, this ain't dress up sweeties......

as for baby daddy....run away and it snip-snip....simple


...you are a product of your environment, your environment is a product of your priorities, your priorities are a product of you......

The replacement of morality and conscience with law produces a deadly paradox.


STOP BEING GOOD DEMOCRATS---STOP BEING GOOD REPUBLICANS--START BEING GOOD AMERICANS

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