On October 15th Campus Progress teamed up with the University of Maryland Baltimore County Freedom Alliance to show the film The Education of Shelby Knox. Meeting at the University Cabaret, about twenty people showed up to watch the film and to discuss the role of sex education in the United States.
Following a fifteen year-old girl in Texas, Shelby Knox displays how the lack of comprehensive sex education in our school systems often leads, as it did in Texas, to high rates of STDs and pregnancies. It accurately portrays the real-life consequences of implemented policies that are often written hundreds or thousands of miles away.
Staying after the screening, attendees said the film made them think about other parts of the United States, and the diverse difficulties they face. Most colleges provide an environment where sex, sex education, and protection are talked about without objection. This film reminded students that there are parts of the country where people refuse to teach sex education because they want everyone to only have sex within marriage.
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