http://blog.tellthemsc.org/2010/01/traci-young-cooper/ Thu, 02 Sep 2010 13:48:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 http://blog.tellthemsc.org/2010/01/traci-young-cooper/comment-page-1/#comment-32 Julie Lonon Wed, 20 Jan 2010 16:00:23 +0000 http://blog.tellthemsc.org/?p=89#comment-32 Our children must be armed with knowledge to allow them to make smart decisions. We can't expect our children to know what they need to know if we aren't teaching it to them. As a school board trustee, I am committed to ensuring the success of all the children in my district, and that includes making sure they are healthy and receiving age appropriate sex education. Thank you, Tell Them, for your efforts! Our children must be armed with knowledge to allow them to make smart decisions. We can’t expect our children to know what they need to know if we aren’t teaching it to them. As a school board trustee, I am committed to ensuring the success of all the children in my district, and that includes making sure they are healthy and receiving age appropriate sex education. Thank you, Tell Them, for your efforts!

]]> http://blog.tellthemsc.org/2010/01/traci-young-cooper/comment-page-1/#comment-29 Mary Orner Wed, 20 Jan 2010 15:31:42 +0000 http://blog.tellthemsc.org/?p=89#comment-29 If sex education can prevent one teen pregnancy, it will have made an enormous impact. Few teen mothers have any prenatal care. They deliver premature infants who require hundreds of thousands of healthcare dollars. These infants often have lifeling disabilities and the teen mother is unable to cope with them. If sex education can prevent one teen pregnancy, it will have made an enormous impact. Few teen mothers have any prenatal care. They deliver premature
infants who require hundreds of thousands of healthcare dollars.
These infants often have lifeling disabilities and the teen mother is unable to cope
with them.

]]> http://blog.tellthemsc.org/2010/01/traci-young-cooper/comment-page-1/#comment-25 Katie Haswell Mon, 18 Jan 2010 14:40:23 +0000 http://blog.tellthemsc.org/?p=89#comment-25 Traci Young Cooper's approach in talking about age-appropriate sex education is, in the simplest terms, what the state of South Carolina needs to come to. I come from a place where there was no question in teaching children and young adults about healthy decisions, and being in this state for three years now, I feel blessed that I was brought up in a home where it was okay to ask questions. But now, in my college years, I am acquainted with people who don't know the entire truth about healthy decision making. This state needs to step up and share Ms. Traci Young-Cooper's thought that education about healthy decision making should not be an option, it should be a given. Traci Young Cooper’s approach in talking about age-appropriate sex education is, in the simplest terms, what the state of South Carolina needs to come to. I come from a place where there was no question in teaching children and young adults about healthy decisions, and being in this state for three years now, I feel blessed that I was brought up in a home where it was okay to ask questions. But now, in my college years, I am acquainted with people who don’t know the entire truth about healthy decision making. This state needs to step up and share Ms. Traci Young-Cooper’s thought that education about healthy decision making should not be an option, it should be a given.

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