Mississippi Won’t Allow This Teacher To Show Kids How To Use Condoms. He Found A Brilliant Solution

In Mississippi, as in many states, educators are forced to teach abstinence as a valid birth control and disease prevention method. Teachers are prohibited from any demonstration of how condoms or other contraceptives are applied.

76% of Mississippi teens report having sex before they finish high school and a whopping one-third of babies in the state are born to teens.However, one teacher came up with a solution for how to educate teens on how to protect themselves in spite of the state’s ridiculous law.

But this goes deeper than condoms lessons on feet, does it not? This story touches the heart of a very ugly truth in America. We are proudly a willfully ignorant nation. This isn’t some great secret; Europeans have said it for generations. And we teach our children ignorant values by not teaching and exposing them to the things they need to know.

We want our kids to be sweet and innocent forever. The problem is that the world will not wait for them to have a “proper childhood.” We live in an age where information can be attained almost instantaneously. Children have more messages bombarding them through more forms of media than at any point in history.

Yet parents still insist on sheltering their kids. It’s like trying to keep them dry with an umbrella in the middle of a hurricane.

Instead of teaching our children how to be strong, we tell them they are too weak to deal with real world issues. And when they get older we wonder why they have so many issues in the real world? We insist they live in a make believe world, and encourage them to continue to lie to us when the real world wakes them up. Because that’s the American Way.

But I wonder what destination is that way ultimately leading us to “Ignorance is bliss until they take your bliss away.” ~Queens Of The Stone Age.

Please take a look at this video. And if you’re not shaking your head in embarrassment for the government and electorate of Mississippi, you should be.

h/t Mother Jones via Deadstate