Chlamydia rampant in Crane High School

[Red Oak]

Officials with the Crane Independent School District are meeting to discuss their sex education program after nearly two dozen cases of Chlamydia were reported among the high school student body.

KOSA-TV reported the Crane Independent School District sent a letter to parents last week regarding 20 cases of chlamydia among the Crane High School student population, which totals about 300 students.

Those letters were sent to the parents of both senior and junior students as a precaution. The Texas Department of State Health Services notified both Crane and Upton County officials after a significant numbers of cases were identified.

The high school has three days of sex education in the fall semester for students, with the curriculum including abstinence. Crane ISD Superintendent Jim T. Rumage cited abstinence as a useful methodology for keeping kids away from sexual activity in a phone interview Monday.

“If kids are not having any sexual activity, they can’t get this disease … That’s not a bad program,” Rumage said.

Rumage said officials are meeting today to develop a curriculum that will be recommended to the school board on May 19.

[BigTex]

Nun: "Mother Superior! There is a case of syphilis in the convent!"

Mother Superior: "Thank God. I was getting tired of those Frescas."

[millergrovesue]

“If kids are not having any sexual activity, they can’t get this disease … That’s not a bad program,” Rumage said.

Uh, duh! Sounds like there is a fair amount of shared sexual partners going on. BTW, I always thought sex ed. was the parent's job, not the school's.

[planosteve]

Is that what they called the clap when I was in high school?

[BigTex]

I believe the clap is good old gonorrhea.

[Cowman52]

To give an idea of what goes on in crane, ejected a football player in the first half of a game, he's back in the second half with a different number. Not the kind of thing you can cover up without a lot of people knowing.