So Bush is so big on education that in the third debate he kept mentioning it as a method of steering away from questions he couldn't or wouldn't answer. But it's like that line in The Princess Bride, "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means." I think he means indoctrination. 'Cause, you know, even "pro-life" folks have now concluded that a populace that's actually educated (and more financially stable) has fewer abortions. As Ampersand points out,
the Bush administration has used the "bully pulpit" to argue against birth control, and has encouraged abstinence-only education. Abstinence is indeed the most effective birth control (although "abstinence," from a pregnancy-prevention point of view, can also include having lots of oral sex and homosexual sex); but it doesn't follow that abstinence-only education is the most effective pregnancy-prevention education.Just as highly-skilled people don't need to be told "get job training" if the jobs they've lost are already on a higher level than anything a "community college" education could possibly train them for, sexually-active women don't need abstinence-only "education" when they could be given actual helpful information on birth control, abortion, etc. But I suppose it's too much to expect a C+ student who was only passed through due to legacy admission to understand anything about actual education.
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