Shelby Knox

Student Counsel

An interview with Shelby Knox, Rose Rosen­blatt, Marion Lipschultz by Rebecca Onion, appeared in issue Truth & Consequences; published in 2005; filed under Film; tagged abstinence, education, religious right, Republican, sex, sex education, Shelby Knox, Sundance.
Talking Sense with <em>The Education of Shelby Knox</em>’s Creators and Star
Truth & Consequences

Everything’s bigger in Texas, or so the saying goes, and that may be truest in the realm of sex-education controversy. Texas, which has one of the nation’s highest rates of teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases, has also been at the forefront of abstinence-only education in public schools since 1995, when then-governor George W. Bush signed the curriculum into law.

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