If you read the article you will see that Arkansas only allows "abstinence only" education in public schools. This teaches only "just say no". It doesn't teach anyone what to do if they decide to say "yes". In our school district years ago the ONLY comprehensive sex education course was for those who were already pregnant! Too little too late, ya think?

The abstinence-only education at that time was coordinated through a religious organization. My young daughter brought home a booklet that explained how condoms didn't work - it said "condoms laugh at STD's". (The message therefore being that if you are going to have sex, don't bother using condoms or learning to use them correctly!) My daughter was smart enough to know that she was being fed a line of garbage, so a number of us parents organized and demanded hearings at the school board to get a comprehensive sex education course free of religious bias. The board was actually moving against us when the superintendent over-rode them and demanded that a comprehensive program be developed that was age-appropriate for sixth grade up.