I’m Listening
My head hurts today, and I am having difficulty putting words to “blog”, but this disturbing speech by Oklahoma Representative Sally Kern came to my attention this morning.
I wish that I had the words to express my outrage, my frustration, my sadness and more. Time to take action?
…and on to a different subject…or is it? Education, honesty, reality, isn’t it time to put ignorance behind us?
Starr called me this morning and (among other things) said that one of the girls in her hall has herpes. Sad that such personal information has reached the ears of all the students that this young woman interacts with daily. Coincidentally, I saw this news article just yesterday which states that:
At least one in four teenage girls nationwide has a sexually transmitted disease, or more than 3 million teens, according to the first study of its kind in this age group.
A virus that causes cervical cancer is by far the most common sexually transmitted infection in teen girls aged 14 to 19, while the highest overall prevalence is among black girls — nearly half the blacks studied had at least one STD.
I believe in education, smart, real, honest, complete education. It won’t cure everything, we are human after all, but knowledge is not a handicap. Misinformation and ignorance surely can be.
