Bookworm on Sep 16 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Education, England
Last year, my daughter had her first exposure to sex ed, and I have to say I thought the school district approached it perfectly, focusing on the biology of sex. About half the kids in the class were just hitting puberty, and they had lots of questions, which the course answered with sensible science. At [...]
Bookworm on Sep 15 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Education, John McCain, Sarah Palin, Sex, Taxes
The McCain campaign is giving substantive responses to the attacks the Obama campaign is leveling against it:
TO: Interested Parties
RE: Empty Words And Insults Cannot Cover A Weak Record
DATE: September 15, 2008
Over the last few days, the Obama campaign has watched their poll numbers falter and decided to lash out with personal attacks against Senator McCain [...]
Bookworm on Sep 02 2008 | Filed under: Sarah Palin, Sex
I’m having a very hard time finding out what the sex ed curriculum is in Alaska schools. Although Palin advocates abstinence, what are the public schools teaching? It appears from the article that they’re teaching full sex ed, with an emphasis on the virtues of abstinence.
A couple of things. First, that’s exactly the same curriculum [...]
Bookworm on Mar 12 2008 | Filed under: Sex
Soccer Dad, who has a wonderful blog here, sent me a nice email agreeing with the points I made in my Biology will have its way post. He added an anecdote about Planned Parenthood: “The archdiocese of Baltimore announced that it would pay for counseling for women who had undergone abortions. Planned Parenthood [...]
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