Wednesday, October 20, 1999
What you can do
Contact Ohio representatives, senators and Gov. Bob Taft and ask them to:
• Require full public hearings on the proposed Ohio Model for Health and Physical Education.
(The Ohio legislature already has required at least one public hearing on some DOE budget appropriations for Coordinated School Health and AIDS. The funds are “frozen” pending the hearing outcome and General Assembly approval of plans for the money. A hearing date has not been announced.)
• Permanently stop Ohio's tax-sup ported training in the CDC's sex ed curricula (called HIV/AIDS/STD and Pregnancy Prevention “Programs That Work”) and give back the grant money.
Say “no, thanks” to all federal grants that require condom-based, values-free sex ed in our schools.
• Contact your U.S. Congressmen and Senators and ask them to investigate the CDC's plans to revamp sex education and health programs in all schools. Ask them why our tax money is being used to develop the exercises described in “Excerpts from CDC sex education.”
E-mail/Web addresses
• Gov. Bob Taft: senator_dewine@dewine.senate.gov
• Sen. Mike DeWine: senator_dewine@dewine.senate.gov
• Sen. George Voinovich: www.senate.gov/~voinovich/
• Rep John Boehner: john.boehner@mail.house.gov
• Rep. Steve Chabot: www.house.gov/writerep/
• Rep. Rob Portman: portmail@mail.house.gov
• Rep. Ted Strickland: www.house.gov/writerep/
Share your opinion with us at letters@enquirer.com
EDITORIAL: Sex-ed: Who's in control?
Excerpts from CDC sex education
State says it won't force plan on local schools
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