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school system may be forever in many areas of the
country, a very volatile subject and a point of
contention between school district board members,
school district administrators, educators, parents
and organizations in the community who have a specific
religious bias and or a political agenda as the
Alpha Center and even Life and
Liberty for Women. Yet, that cannot be the
reason or excuse for a school district to ignore
or abdicate their responsibility to provide a consistent,
accurate, factual, and scientifically based comprehensive
sex education curriculum that serves the health
needs of all our children, and a sex education curriculum
that is in compliance with Poudre School District's
stated policy on the provision of comprehensive
health education and in compliance with Colorado
State Statues. |
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| The twenty-first century
in which we now find ourselves, has seen fit to
present us as parents, educators, school administrators,
and community members with unique challenges in
raising and educating our |
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| children, but perhaps
none as difficult as that of trying to protect and
prevent the children we love and educate from involving
themselves in risky behaviors that could harm them
physically and emotionally, even killing them -
from speeding cars, drugs, and alcohol, to tobacco
and teenage sexual activity. If every parent were
responsible and responsive to their children's sex
education needs, perhaps public education would
not be needed to fill the gap. But that scenario
is not likely to ever present itself no matter how
hard we desire it, preach it, teach it, or demand
it. There will always be a need for the community
and its public education system to fill the gap
many parents leave. |
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| The diversity within the
community is reflected in the diversity of opinion
about the provision of sex education. Providing
ample opportunity for the community and parents
to be involved in evaluating the precise sex education
HIV/STD curriculum that the public school district
will ultimately take into our children's classrooms
is a must. |
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"It must be realized and acknowledged that
the Poudre School District's Comprehensive Health Education
Policy does, on its face, exclude an abstinence-only till
marriage HIV/STD sex education curriculum."
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acknowledged that the Poudre School District's Comprehensive
Health Education Policy does, on its face, exclude
a curriculum deliberately void of vital scientifically
accurate information about how to protect themselves
from unintended pregnancy, STDs, and HIV/AIDS, should
they ever become sexually active as teens or someday
as adults. |
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| It must be realized and
acknowledged that the Poudre School District's Comprehensive
Health Education Policy does, on its face, exclude
an abstinence-only till marriage HIV/STD sex education
curriculum. |
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| Our children's well-being
should not be placed in the hands of a community
organization whose philosophical beliefs and religious
bias leads them to deliberately disseminate inaccurate
and false information that could and most likely
would ultimately prove dangerous and deadly to our
youngsters. Our children's well-being should not
be placed in the hands of an organization which
has proven itself time and time again to be untrustworthy
and who must be very carefully monitored to ensure
their compliance with district officials requests
or to ensure the accuracy of the information they
present to our children. |
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| Again, I strongly urge
Poudre School District board members, school administrators,
and educators to move quickly to adopt a district
wide, well-proven, scientifically accurate abstinence-based
comprehensive sex education, HIV/AIDS/STD curriculum,
namely Sex Can Wait, the abstinence curriculum
and Reducing the Risk, the STD/HIV and contraceptive
curriculum that would be taught in-house by district
educators. |
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strongly urge Pourdre School District board members
and school administrators to move quickly to terminate
the abstinence-only till marriage STD/HIV curriculum
presentations presented district-wide by the Alpha
Center. |
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| Respectively submitted, |
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| Peggy Loonan |
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Peggy Loonan,
Executive Director
Life and Liberty for Women,
mother of two daughters
PMB 213 1015-M South Taft Hill Rd.
Fort Collins, CO 80521
(970) 217-7577 peggy@lifeandlibertyforwomen.org
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