Sex education in the U.S. is screwing our kids

"...“Education policy is very home-ruled in the United States,” Rhodes said. “States and local community members want to have control over the education that their children are receiving, rather than having the federal government telling them what to teach.”

Furthermore, Rhodes pointed out that states lack any mechanism to ensure that individual districts and schools are in compliance with their mandates. “Like any policy really, unless everyone is implementing it, it’s very difficult to enact,” she said..."
http://www.salon.com/2014/12/01/why_sex_education_in_the_u_s_is_an_unmitigted_disaster_partner/