{"id":233,"date":"2018-05-18T16:10:19","date_gmt":"2018-05-18T20:10:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-spring-2018-ivakkur\/?page_id=233"},"modified":"2018-05-18T22:08:39","modified_gmt":"2018-05-19T02:08:39","slug":"why-atlanta","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-spring-2018-ivakkur\/why-atlanta\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Atlanta?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">The City<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Georgia is one of the minority of states that requires sex education in schools. The problem that I am focusing on is the content of these sex education programs in Atlanta public schools. Many of these victim-blame in examples of sexual assault, teach abstinence-only, and leave out essential information about consent, contraceptives, healthy relationships, and the queer community.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Atlanta area was ranked fifth for HIV rates in 2015 by the CDC. While the state of Georgia does mandate HIV education, according to the Guttmacher Institute many schools instead teach Choosing the Best \u2013 a program that \u201cprovides information about abstinence\u201d and \u201cwhy wait training\u201d. There are few comprehensive sex education programs that inform students about sexual health and protective measures. While I was born and raised in Atlanta, I was incredibly privileged to have received supplementary comprehensive sex education, so I am very interested in discovering how (and if) sex ed is taught in most Atlanta public schools.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The City Georgia is one of the minority of states that requires sex education in schools. The problem that I am focusing on is the content of these sex education programs in Atlanta public schools. Many of these victim-blame in examples of sexual assault, teach abstinence-only, and leave out essential information about consent, contraceptives, healthy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":667,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-233","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-spring-2018-ivakkur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-spring-2018-ivakkur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-spring-2018-ivakkur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-spring-2018-ivakkur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/667"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-spring-2018-ivakkur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-spring-2018-ivakkur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-spring-2018-ivakkur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}