no info will be given on World AIDS day!

From Las Vegas Sun

School cuts sex aspect from awareness project

This year the local observance of World AIDS Day will include a program at a Las Vegas high school, a very unusual occurrence.
But because of the eternal controversy surrounding sex education, the students won't hear about the sexual transmission of AIDS or the different ways they can protect themselves.
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In separating the "social issue" of AIDS from any information about sex, "We just decided to be cautious, the administrators and I," Gault said.
But local AIDS workers say the Clark County School District's sex education policy is so conservative that it may be leading to inadequate awareness of safe sex.
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"We do have a very conservative, strict curriculum, and it does have very specific guidelines," said Agustin Orci, the district's deputy superintendent for curriculum.
Since 1988 the school district's sex-ed guidelines have specified that the curriculum be "abstinence-based," said Christy Falba, who directs the district's math, science and technology curriculum. That agenda originates with the Board of Education, she said.
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"Teens are extremely sexually active," Roberts said. "But we can't get in to talk to the kids about AIDS or sexually transmitted diseases in the Clark County School District."
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But Gault said she thought the "separation" of the AIDS issue from any discussion of sex was appropriate. "I think that there's so many aspects of AIDS to deal with, and the social issues are just as important as the sex issues, in terms of politics and foreign policy," she said.
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To Roberts, AIDS awareness in all its forms shouldn't be political. But the schools' attitude, she said, amounts to "HIV is something we don't see or talk about, so it doesn't exist."

So, in Clark County, on World AIDS Day, kids cannot learn how to protect themselves from the disease! Isn't ultra-conservatism great?! Does conservatism simply mean depriving people of information and rights?!