Good luck with that.

Imagine that, another example of old fashioned advice that “modern” science has proved effective. At some point, preaching or teaching abstinence was thought ineffective by some guru educators. Like many of these gurus they probably made up their minds about effectiveness without actually testing the idea.

So….if teaching kids about consequences works for sexual activity, I wonder what would happen to student grades if we warned kids about the consequences of poor performance and then actually had some consequences. Fear is a great motivator.

Lou you are still alive. Still peddling that scare the @%&$ out of them stuff.

Abstinence won’t work with the children of the people on this site let alone any others. Go ahead live in your bubble.

Hey Mr. Education Guru - “abstinence won’t work with the children of the people on this site…..”

You don’t speak for me.

I taught in a classroom for 30 years. I wish I had a nickel for every uptight conservative parent who discovered their 16 year old was doing it. As I said I wish you all the best with that abstinence point of view. Naive but kind of retro.

You still don’t speak for me Doug. You’re one voice that stands as a great example as to why school boards are hopping on the alternative school band wagon.

It’s because they know what we know….that they’re competing for fewer students and by offering choice within the system they may stem the bleeding of students looking outside the system.

I wish I had a nickel every time a champion of the public school system tried to trivialize parents or try to shut down debate with nonsensical last words I’d be much richer than the education guru here.

I have supported public alternative schools for 30 years. Established two of them in High Park when I was a trustee. Nothing wrong with public alternatives although I did not put my daughter in one. I was not satisfied with the fuzzyness of some of them.

There is a huge difference between a public alternative under a school board subject to a collective agreement, staffing rules and board policy democratically arrived at and a private school that gets a voucher or any level of public support without accountability.