...94% is a pretty damning statistic, but I would caution along with two of the previous letter writers that it is far from the whole truth.

My own relatively recent high school experience in a very conservative-leaning Dallas-area Congressional district (albeit a fairly affluent one) was characterized not by being denied information, but being told so many of the specific anatomical details that you just wanted to rinse off your eye-balls after health class. Or hold your books in front of your pants.

Granted, anecdotal experience doesn't refute a statistical study, but I would go even further to note that in the student-age culture, first at inter-school events and later at the University, mockery of "sex-ed" in the vein of those old drivers' ed films didn't seem to exist. There was no counter-culture fighting overbearing "education", especially one that would tell you that sex = suicide.

Again, 94% is pretty damning. But my sense is that this study went out of its way to be as "alarming" as possible.

The report (and TCF is only relaying the findings of the report here) doesn't say that sex education is entirely lacking in Texas, just in the vast majority (94%!) of school districts. I am glad to hear that the subject is properly covered in DISD schools, but it seems that most Texas districts fall far short. You may disagree with that result, but you ought to look over the report; it looks pretty comprehensive, covering 96% of Texas school districts.

Don't shoot the messenger!

The author is completely misinformed on this. I am a parent of two middle school kids in Dallas, TX. Both, at separate schools, have received what the school terms "sex ed." They learned anatomy of the sex organs of both sexes, the anatomy of sexual intercourse, what gay sex is, and how to prevent pregnancy via birth control. My kids know about birth control pills, condoms, iud's and diaphragms.

I thought they were taught about sex and prevention of pregnancy as comprehensively as they could have been.

They did not receive any scare propaganda about suicide or shame as this author claims. Actually the opposite was true - my children feel empowered by the knowledge they received.