Normandy High School in St. Louis, Missouri has a serious problem. According to the health department, as many as 50 of their students may have been exposed to HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. The school has sent a letter to parents and guardians informing them that epidemiologists have reason to believe that the virus might have been transmitted "among some Normandy Senior High School students."
The health department offered free testing. What is astounding to me is that 97% of the 1,300 students went in for testing. If there is an HIV scare in my community, I'll feel extremely confident that I don't have it. If I've had a recent blood transfusion, or been accidentally pricked with a tainted needle at the doctor's office, I'll go for testing. Otherwise, I won't be worried. So why are all these students concerned? Well, it could be because they don't have abstinence only sex education and they are promiscuous. Or it could be that their sex education curriculum is woefully deficient as demonstrated by this quote: " . . .students awaited their test results and tried to guess how it was that this deadly virus intruded on their high school years." High school students don't know how HIV is spread? It appears their sex education curriculum doesn't teach much besides it's OK to have sex!
"AIDS scare puts students on edge." The Dallas Morning News; November 9, 2008; p. 10A.
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3 comments:
Wow....how scary is that?....97% of them!
or maybe they ONLY had abstinence only education, thus their blatant ignorance as to what happens to their bodies.
In reply to comment #2 -- maybe, but I doubt it, thus their blatant ignorance as to what is morally correct.
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