The Nation - News from Jan. 23, 1987
Secretary of Education William J. Bennett called on school board leaders to eliminate sex education courses that fail to teach youngsters to abstain from intercourse. Sex education courses that teach moral values have a place in the curriculum, Bennett said at a meeting in Washington of the National School Boards Assn. He said the fact that 1 million U.S. teen-agers become pregnant each year indicates that “much sex education is (not) doing any good at all.”
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