Let's start with this wider view: this is part of the bulletin board that includes appeals for peace and affordable education. A lot of pictures cut out of magazine around it. If this is a classroom presentation, I'll just suggest that Littlest -- who celebrates her 14th birthday today -- can do better than this display. But click to enlarge that picture, and tell me what those are on the far right?

Yes, that's right: they're condoms. I'll start with this one for today:
The blue pieces of paper suggest these facts

• "1 in 3 women get pregnant under age 20." Well, the National Center for Health Statistics reports 40.5 live births for 1,00o population ages15-19, so unless there are a whole lot of abortions going on there, that figure looks just a little high.
• "80% of abstinence only curricular contain false, misleading & distorted information." This is based on a report commissioned by Henry Waxman that gets repeated in much of the NOW and other feminist literature. Of course, it's not about what the parents want, right? Is that a problem according to the third piece of paper...
• "Most adolescents learn sex ed from parents, friends & media before programs start." I cannot tell what they mean by this; are the programs spreading misinformation, or are the parents and friends? Who has the right information? Oh yes, that's right, must be the people who make these posters.

More on this board tomorrow.

Labels: higher education, SCSU