By the way, whether you like Await and Find or not, the truth is that if they are accepting money from the Federal Government, they are abstinence-only (CA does not accept money due to the fact that they opt for comprehensive sex education). Abstinence-only is illegal in CA, and Await and Find is not in compliance.

Debating what you believe is not appropriate here- the law is the law. If you do not accept the law on comprehensive sex education, fight that in the legislature.

Many of Await and Find’s citations do NOT coincide with the CDC. They quote a Medical Institute that is a non-profit religious agency, not an actual medical hospital or governmental agency.

Please visit the following governmental sites to confirm regarding funding:

http://www.fedspending.org/faads/faads.php?reptype=r&detail=-1&datype=T&sortby=t&database=faads&recip_id=66216&fiscal_year=2006&record_num=f500

(2006)
http://www.siecusdc.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=Page.viewPage&parentID=487&grandparentID=478&pageId=545&noheader=1

Here is another site where she gets funding from: http://128.248.232.90/archives/mchb/abstinence2002/firstyr.htm

She was quoted as saying: The government in California may not support abstinence, but the parents and the students and the school districts really do and they cannot stop asking for more. (GOING AGAINST CA LAW)

Anyway, more funding (2001):
http://newsroom.hrsa.gov/releases/2001%20Releases/abstinenceonlygrants.htm

“Our public school classrooms, however, are the appropriate forum for that debate.”

should have read:

Our public school classrooms, however, are NOT the appropriate forum for that debate.

http://www.awaitandfind.org/view_topicdetail.php?id=25

AWAIT and FIND FAQ’s to parents:

“Shouldn’t I tell my daughter about the “morning-after” pill in case there’s an emergency? Make her aware?

Yes. Encourage her to use it? You may want to know more first.

The morning-after pill, otherwise known as emergency contraception, consists of a cocktail of high-dosage hormones, which can be taken up to 72 hours after intercourse. The pill “works” by either preventing ovulation or blocking implantation of an already fertilized egg. However, the morning-after pill offers no protection against sexually transmitted diseases, including AIDS.

Some states (including California, effective January 1, 2002), allow pharmacists to dispense Mifepristone, known as the morning-after pill, without a prescription.

Physicians that oppose the morning-after pill being available without prescription are concerned about the lack of physician oversight, counseling and safeguards for contraindications or complications.

Side-effects of the morning-after pill can include:

* nausea
* vomiting
* infertility
* breast tenderness
* ectopic pregnancy, which can be life threatening
* blood clot formation

If you are interested in obtaining more information about the morning-after pill, you can do a search on line and find many varying perspectives. Just use your favorite search engine and type in “morning-after pill.”

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Dr. Trussell to Renee:

From: James Trussell [mailto:trussell@Princeton.EDU]
Sent: Monday, November 12, 2007 10:47 PM
To: srbj4@comcast.net

The information on ECPs is nonsense. First mifepristone (called Mifeprex in the United States) is not available in any pharmacy even with a prescription. It is used for medication abortion and is distributed only to doctors who perform abortions. Second, of the list of side effects, only three (nausea and vomiting and breast tenderness) are correct.

Are schools that are using the program in compliance with the California Education Code?

And the answer is clearly “no”.

http://www.cde.ca.gov/ls/he/se/preveducationltr.asp

Outside of that, there is much room for personal debate on how we all feel about the subject of sex education, what should be talked about and how etc.

Our public school classrooms, however, are the appropriate forum for that debate. Unfortunately though, that line is crossed often.

As parents we need to be sure to check for ourselves about the credibility of those outside “people” teaching our students.

One way to do that is to see what is online.

Sadly, here is just a bit of what I found at the Await and Find website:

http://www.peerchaos.org/pcpres.htm#sample

Sampling of Primary Skits

The Newelywed Game – couples Jack & Jill and Ken & Barbie compete, while answering potentially embarassing questions like: How many sexual partners did you have? and Has your wife ever had any STD’s? Theme: Choices today affect tomorrow

Hans and Frans – a spoof of the “Saturday Night Live” characters who come out to rally students and pump up their self-confidence, encouraging them to say “no” to their “stoop-ed” friend when they pressure them to have sex or do drugs. Theme: Self-confident teens have an esaier time saying “no.”

Muffy, the STD Slayer – characters are confronted with a disease called HPV. Muffy and company learn that HPV can lead to cancer and kills more women than HIV in the U.S. Theme: Some STD’s are incurable and have dire consequesnces.

“Soap Opera” – Jake, who has a girlfriend, fends off the sexual advances of Veroinca, a tramp, who wants a man she cannot have. Theme: How to say no to someone who wants only your body

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Pardon my dismay, however, being a parent who has prepared, and am now sending, my children to UC Santa Cruz and UC Berkeley, the medical inaccuracies and gender biases here are appalling. My kids would have been laughed off of College Board with such nonsense.

Furthermore, given that AWAIT and FIND is receiving millions of dollars for their work I would expect they would put some of those resources, if not to quality content of their program, at least to someone who knows how to use spell check for their Internet site.

I would also expect that any outside “expert” teaching a specialized subject would actually hold some sort of related certification or degree in that area of expertise. To the best of my knowledge, AWAIT and FIND CREATOR, Angela Griffiths is Chiropractor.

In questioning some of the AWAIT and FIND content I also contacted Dr James Trussell at Princeton University to query him about the medical information at the A&F website regarding emergency contraception. His response to me was that the information was completely inaccurate. (feel free to contact him about my query)

Disseminating inaccurate information to a classroom of twenty or thirty students is one thing. But to disseminate potentially life threatening medically inaccurate information on the Internet is unconscionable and deserving of serious public scrutiny.

I applaud Fremont Unified for removing Await and Find from its classrooms. Not only does the program violate California State Education code, it also works to undermine the education of our children. Many of whom are aspiring to attend our very own UC’s here in California where AWAIT and FIND busies itself with miseducating our young people.

So, I’m sorry to break it to YOU, most of your neighbors aren’t fervent Leninists. (By the way, I’m a Scientists from California, not a creationist from Kansas)