Abstinence

Dear bloggers,

I finished my opinion piece on abstinence only education. I am actually rather proud of it. I found a way to assert an opinion I don't believe in with facts that I do. I didn't cop out and take a religious stance on it. I actually asserted a valid point. I don't think that what I did was in anyway dishonest.

Still, this article will appear under a pseudonym--Jack Smith. This is a combination of two of my favorite authors: Jack Kerouac and Charlotte Smith.

Here is the full version of the piece. Tell me what you think.

I am not a religious person. I say that not to degrade those in favor of my present position, but to convince those against it that the following will be a rational article, not given to the reasoning of archaic Judeo-Christian beliefs.
The problem with comprehensive sex education is that it gives no credit to our teens. By teaching comprehensive sex education, we are telling our kids that we have given up on their ability to make adult choices. We offer them pills and condoms because we do not believe they are strong enough to abstain.
As great a product as birth control is, it is not 100% effective. Every method is less effective when, not used according to the directions. For example, if the 967 students that attended SC-BU last semester had all been in comprehensive sex education, and—feeling they had all the knowledge to make smart decisions—had promiscuous sex, while using the birth control pill typically (forgetting a day here and there) 48 of our students would be a mother or father right now. If each student at SC-BU had sex and used a condom typically 135 students would most likely be with child now.
I am not advocating against safe sex. In this world were Planned Parenthood is advertising and television is advocating sex, children are smart enough to know how to protect themselves if they are going to be active. I believe that in the classroom, we should try to hold our students up to the caliber society expects from them. We must let them know the risks that each method of “prevention” comes with. We must let them know that abstinence is an option, one that they can achieve.