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Stone Mountain School
Stone Mountain boarding school for boys is a long-term residential school in an outdoors environment. Stone Mountain is a boarding school that specializes in pre-adolescent and teen boys with attention deficit disorder, hyperactivity, emotional issues, learning differences or disabilities, or behavioral problems. The rustic wilderness environment in North Carolina serves as an excellent teaching tool for boys with ADHD / ADD through direct experience. Specialty boarding schools offer boys with ADD a safe, structured environment in which they can thrive and succeed both academically and socially.
Research Indicates Sex Ed Teachers Are Uncomfortable Teaching Their Subject
Teachers, parents, and school administrators are in the middle of a controversy about how to present sex education classes to teenagers. Many want abstinence-only curriculum, while others want schools to teach birth control.
A new study published in the journal Obstetrics and Gynecology indicates that almost a third of instructors teaching sex education have no formal training, and another two-thirds do not teach students how to use condoms. Although many students are sexually active, they are not getting information in sex education classes about how to talk to their partners about sex and contraceptives.
The author of the study, Dr. Stacy Tessler Lindau, is a doctor and professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Chicago. She says, "Teachers are not being trained, they are not comfortable teaching sex ed, and if the teachers are not comfortable, it's unlikely students are comfortable with the knowledge they are getting in school."
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