School board rejects education about birth control, says middle schoolers don’t think about sex

Middle school students in Charleston won’t be learning about birth control or healthy relationships, thanks to a decision from school board members who are worried that will lead them to start having sex.

When the Charleston County School Board voted this week to approve a new version of its middle school sex education curriculum, it decided to exclude an appendix with information about how to tell a partner you don’t want to have sex as well as information about STDs, and HIV and qualities of healthy and unhealthy relationships. This appendix was recommended by the district’s health advisory committee....
https://thinkprogress.org/school-board-rejects-education-about-birth-control-says-middle-schoolers-dont-think-about-sex-594dc2a1ea8#.xhh28ie8z