Despite the state's high teen birth rate, a recent policy change by Texas leaders made sex education opt-in, rather than opt-out, which means some kids might not get any instruction in schools at all. | via keranews
. That means the default is that kids don't get taught about sexual health, puberty or reproduction, unless parents give permission. Texas leaders, including Gov. Greg Abbott, said parents should have control over what their children learn in schools.Biundo said she's concerned that one missed piece of paper or email will mean that some kids won't get this instruction at all.
Greenbert says opt-in policy is a"huge logistical barrier for kids.""Do you really care about the reproductive health of these kids? You have to give them information," she said.J.R. Chester has seen all this before. Slow updates and lack of information access has been a pattern since she started as a community health worker with Parkland Health Hospital System more than ten years ago.
"A lot of my female students had no idea that sexual intercourse didn't take place in the same hole that they urinated from," said Chester."They had this myth in their mind that oh, well, can't you just pee it out? I hear that a lot as a method of pregnancy prevention." Byrd said she wishes there people from the state deciding on health education would communicate with students like her.
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