If you ignore it, it's not there!

Anyone who is familiar with canine behavior knows that dogs can do some pretty weird things.

One of my personal favorites is the reaction my dog, Ginger, has when she perceives as confusing and possible threatening in her line of vision. She doesn't bark, or investigate, or do anything really. She just turns her head until the threatening object is only perceptible in her most peripheral vision.

Something along these lines.

The following  is the human version of that phenomenon.

Utah's state legislature recently passed House Bill 363, which "all Utah public schools, including charter schools, to have abstinence only sexual education instruction and allows school districts to opt-out of providing sex education in high school health courses" (http://thestudentreview.org/2012/03/14/utah-legislators-sterilize-sex-ed/).

So basically, school districts can choose from two VERY liberal policies:

1) Not teach sex ed at all at the high school level
2) Teach abstinence only

Republican representative Bill Wright said the following: "When they are ready to get married, they can be taught how to use contraceptives."

Really, Bill? Really? You think that making teenagers LESS aware of current birth control methods is going to make the teen pregnancy rate go down? Or that the teenagers who were going to have sex are just going to say "never mind! It seems abstinence is our only choice! Let's wait until we get married."

Not happening.

So, to conclude, why not look DIRECTLY AT the issue as opposed to ignoring it completely? After all, the bowl of popcorn my dog finds so suspicious is still there, even when she ignores it.