Zip Code Bluffton South Carolina

Ninth graders to study Safer Choices for sex ed

The school board unanimously approved research-based reproductive health programs.

For the first time, Beaufort freshmen and second year the county will meet their requirements for reproductive health state of a program proven to help them make safer choices.

The school board unanimously approved the Safer Choices program Tuesday night. The prevention program based on evidence, the comprehensive reproductive health and pregnancy to begin in a PE class this fall.

“Safer Choices will begin this fall for ninth graders,” said Casey Newsome, physical health and comprehensive health education coordinator for the school district.

“We will phase in 10th graders beginning in fall 2012.”

The South Carolina Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy will provide all the training and materials at no cost to the school district. Safer Choices was approved unanimously in March by the 19-member Comprehensive Health Education Advisory Committee, comprised of parents, pastors, health professionals, teachers, students and community members.

The program encourages students to wait to have sex and is shown to increase condom use among students who are already sexually active.

The school district’s previously-approved reproductive health program, “Sex Can Wait,” was listed as an obstacle to Together for Beaufort’s goal of reducing the rate of births by teenagers countywide to 8 percent by 2012.

Though approved by the state Department of Education, research on Sex Can Wait has shown no statistically-significant impact on youth.

In the spring of 2007, Bluffton High School piloted the 10-week Safer Choices for a select group of ninth graders. However, plans to implement Safer Choices for all freshmen fell by the wayside.

For the first time in 2007, there were more teen pregnancies in Bluffton than in any other county ZIP code, red-flagging Bluffton as a high-need area in a high-need county.

During the 2009-10 school year, Bluffton High School’s course offerings did not include the nearly 13 hours of state-required instruction in reproductive health and pregnancy prevention - despite assurances that they did.

On Sept. 21, Susan Cato, Child Abuse Prevention Association executive director, urged the school board to stem an increase in teen pregnancies by adopting a “science-based, proven-effective” adolescent pregnancy prevention program, such as Safer Choices.

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The Toyota Camry Solara , also more commonly known as the Toyota Solara , is a mid-size coupe/convertible designed and engineered by Toyota. Created to appeal to a demographic of [slightly] more sport-minded drivers than those who prefer the Toyota Camry sedan, the Camry Solara aspires to blend "sporty" looks and style with spacious practicality. The front-wheel drive Camry Solara is supposed to have a more sporty image than the Camry sedan. However, all models of the Camry Solara only feature the "Solara" portion of the name on exterior emblems, and the "Camry" portion of the name is rarely used when referring to the car in general.

Prior to the production of the Camry Solara, the 2-door version of the Toyota Camry was simply known as the Camry Coupé . It was added to the third generation Camry lineup in 1994 to compete with the Honda Accord and other cars in its class. However, due to it never being nearly as popular as the 4-door sedan of the Camry, the Camry Coupé was dropped in 1997.

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