Tuesday, March 20, 2007

Schools on HIV and AIDS

According to the article "A Range of Policies" published by the Washington Post on Sunday March 18 2007, different states are required to inform students differently on HIV and AIDS. Schools throughout the country are handling the teaching of safe sex and spread of the HIV virus differently. If Arizona schools chcoose to teach about sexual orientation and homosexuality in health ed classes then they have to be in a facutal manner and not promote a "homosexual lifestyle" or portray homosexuality as a alternative life style or suggest that some sex methods are safer than tohers. In Oklahoma schools are required to educate HIV and AIDS prevention education and teach the different ways, like homosexual activity and drug use are the leading causes of the spread of the viruses. To be honest I believe that the schools should all teach some sort of AIDS and HIV prevention and be honest about what acutally helps prevent the problem, like condoms. I think it is crap that schools get in trouble for teaching safe sex intead of abstince. If it saves lives, im for it.

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