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Since The Sex Ed Chronicles is fiction based around sex instruction politics in the past, I was compelled to look at how No Child Left Behind affects sex instruction in the present.

The most unavoidable impact is that there is less time to teach sex education; emphasis on language arts and mathematics skills and tests has taken class time from all other subjects. I imagine there is less time for sex instruction taught in collective schools in 2007, just as there is less time for recess. We need more of both in our schools.

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When I researched sex instruction procedure for The Sex Ed Chronicles, I read transcripts from state board of instruction hearings from 1980, the year that mandatory sex education, politically known as house Life Education, passed in New Jersey, my home state. Those transcripts explained an overlap in the middle of sex instruction and health/physical education, home economics, biology and collective studies. With less time ready to teach these subjects, there is also a possibility that the units connected to sex instruction get the short shrift. There is also a good opportunity that there is less oversight over sex education; politicians have a natural tendency to ignore policies that they cannot afford to enforce.

I cannot say that the legislative architects of No Child Left Behind saw a relationship in the middle of their motives and cutting back on sex education. I have seen no evidence in the press and I was not around when the policies passed Congress. However, in states with abstinence-only or abstinence-until-marriage sex instruction policies, the collective schools could technically out-source sex instruction to outside organizations, such as True Love Waits, or anti-choice groups–and comply with state instruction laws.

Outsourcing sex instruction in abstinence-only or abstinence-until-marriage states is not impossible for me to believe; community and faith-based groups receive more federal funds to promote abstinence-until-marriage than state governments by a ratio of almost three to one. The school boards can hire outsiders to deliver their message and be compliant, without hiring certified sex educators, and they spend the money they would allocate for sex instruction towards something else.

This gives age-appropriate, medically accurate, sex instruction the short shrift. State governments, like New Jersey’s, that have adopted a more uncut advent to sex education, a more balanced advent (abstinence and contraception, for example), have been given the short shrift by the Bush Administration.

In New Jersey, Governor Jon Corzine refused to accept federal money for abstinence-until-marriage programs last November. community and faith-based groups in New Jersey can still apply for federal funds straight through a dissimilar funds line to teach their message. Garden State residents, legislators, sex educators, parents and students, however, must pay more to get the sex instruction they want; they must fund the programs, pay the educators, and confront the contentious words of the messengers who have been aided by our president.

That is sticking it up the buttocks, or anyone medically spoton name you prefer to call a backside. Not to mention the blurring it causes for parents who want their children to learn sex instruction in school.

While I would bet that conservatives would love to see all sex instruction confined to the outside instructors or home schooling, that is unrealistic. It denies parents and children the facts they really need to know.

Sex study and No Child Left Behind

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