High Schooler Protests ‘Slut-Shaming’

Anonymous · Apr 19, 2013

http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/04/17/1883121/west-virginia-abstinence-assembly/

High Schooler Protests ‘Slut-Shaming’ Abstinence Assembly Despite Alleged Threats From Her Principal

By Tara Culp-Ressler on Apr 17, 2013 at 2:55 pm

High school senior Katelyn Campbell
A West Virginia high school student is filing an injunction against her principal, who she claims is threatening to punish her for speaking out against a factually inaccurate abstinence assembly at her school. Katelyn Campbell, who is the student body vice president at George Washington High School, alleges her principal threatened to call the college where she’s been accepted to report that she has “bad character.”

George Washington High School recently hosted a conservative speaker, Pam Stenzel, who travels around the country to advocate an abstinence-only approach to teen sexuality. Stenzel has a long history ofusing inflammatory rhetoric to convince young people that they will face dire consequences for becoming sexually active. At GW’s assembly, Stenzel allegedly told students that “if you take birth control, your mother probably hates you” and “I could look at any one of you in the eyes right now and tell if you’re going to be promiscuous.” She also asserted that condoms aren’t safe, and every instance of sexual contact will lead to a sexually transmitted infection.

Campbell refused to attend the assembly, which was funded by a conservative religious organization called “Believe in West Virginia” and advertised with fliers that proclaimed “God’s plan for sexual purity.” Instead, she filed a complaint with the ACLU and began to speak out about her objections to this type of school-sponsored event. Campbell called Stenzel’s presentation “slut shaming” and said that it made many students uncomfortable.

GW Principal George Aulenbacher, on the other hand, didn’t see anything wrong with hosting Stenzel. “The only way to guarantee safety is abstinence. Sometimes, that can be a touchy topic, but I was not offended by her,” he told the West Virginia Gazette last week.

But it didn’t end with a simple difference of opinion among Campbell and her principal. The high school senior alleges that Aulenbacher threatened to call Wellesley College, where Campbell has been accepted to study in the fall, after she spoke to the press about her objections to the assembly. According to Campbell, her principal said, “How would you feel if I called your college and told them what bad character you have and what a backstabber you are?” Campbell alleges that Aulenbacher continued to berate her in his office, eventually driving her to tears. “He threatened me and my future in order to put forth his own personal agenda and make teachers and students feel they cant speak up because of fear of retaliation,” she said of the incident.

Despite being threatened, Campbell is not backing down. She hopes that filing this injunction will protect her freedom of speech to continue advocating for comprehensive sexual health resources for West Virginia’s youth. “West Virginia has the ninth highest pregnancy rate in the U.S.,” Campbell told the Gazette. “I should be able to be informed in my school what birth control is and how I can get it. With the policy at GW, under George Aulenbacher, information about birth control and sex education has been suppressed. Our nurse wasn’t allowed to talk about where you can get birth control for free in the city of Charleston.”

Campbell’s complaints about her high school reflect a problematic trend across the country. There are serious consequences when figures like Stenzel repeatedly tell young Americans that contraception isn’t safe. Partly because of the scientific misinformation that often pervades abstinence-only curricula, an estimated 60 percent of young adults are misinformed about birth control’s effectiveness — and some of those teens choose not to use it because they assume it won’t make any difference. Predictably, the states that lack adequate sex ed requirements are also the states that have the highest rates of teen pregnancy and STDs.

Some of Campbell’s fellow students at GW High School are also rallying for her cause. They plan to take up the issue at a local board of education meeting, which is scheduled for Thursday evening.

Anonymous · Apr 19, 2013

I smell potential lulz of the fundie kind here.

Anonymous · Apr 19, 2013

http://www.wvgazette.com/News/201304150062?page=1

In her YouTube videos, Stenzel shouts and says things such as women who take birth control are "10 times more likely to contract a disease . . . or end up sterile or dead." She allegedly told GW and Riverside students, "If your mom gives you birth control, she probably hates you."

Since the assembly, Campbell and other students and parents have voiced their concern with the school's allowance of Stenzel's presentation, which was sponsored by Believe in West Virginia, a religious organization. Campbell, 17, was featured on CNN Monday morning to talk about the assembly, which she referred to as "slut-shaming."

Campbell wants GW Principal George Aulenbacher to resign and apologize to the GW community, she said Monday morning during a news conference at the office of Charleston attorney Mike Callaghan, who is representing her.
Aulenbacher "knowingly psychologically abused students" by allowing the assembly, where Stenzel used scare tactics that left some students crying and wanting to leave, Campbell said.

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Campbell said fliers about the event were passed out to students a day prior and promoted "God's plan for sexual purity." Typically, students are allowed to stay in class with a teacher's supervision if they do not want to attend an assembly, she said, but it was insinuated that students had to attend this assembly.

Aulenbacher and members of the school's staff blocked the gym entrance and told students who tried to leave that they had to stay the entire time, according to the complaint.

A public Facebook page titled "Friends of Aulenbacher" was created Monday, asking for people to show support for the principal who "is under attack for hosting a seminar on abstinence at our high school." The page had about 30 likes by late Monday afternoon.

Anonymous · Apr 19, 2013

http://www.pamstenzel.com/

http://www.thedailybeast.com/witw/articles/2013/04/19/pam-stenzel-america-s-abstinence-prophet.html

If you want to see what schools are getting for their money, check out Stenzel’s YouTube channel. In one of her speeches she talks about girls whose parents help them access hormonal birth control. “That drug, that hormone, that pill, that shot that this girl is taking has just made her ten times more likely to contract a disease than if she were not taking that drug,” Stenzel shouts. “This girl could end up sterile or dead.” In another she tells a rapt student audience that if you have sex outside of perfect monogamy—meaning “one partner who has only been with you”—then “you will pay. No one has ever had more than one partner and not paid.”

Stenzel’s message might sound extreme, but according to Monica Rodriguez, president of the Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States—a group that supports comprehensive sex ed—she’s not that different from other abstinence lecturers. “From the speakers that we’ve reviewed and that we keep tabs on, she’s right in the mainstream,” Rodriguez says.

In most states, there’s no requirement that these speakers offer students true information. “There are some states like California that, in their education code, says that any sexuality education program used in the state needs to be medically accurate,” says Rodriguez. “But that is not as common as you might think or hope in terms of what’s codified in state law.”

In Ohio, for example, a new budget bill would fine teachers up to $5,000 for instruction condoning “gateway sexual activity”—essentially heavy petting. Tennessee passed a similar law last year, with a fine of $500. Teachers, then, will think twice before telling kids that, for example, they can’t catch a sexually transmitted disease by going to second base. But telling students that the birth control pill could kill them? You can get paid for that.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/...-george-washington-high-school_n_3070605.html

Anonymous · Apr 19, 2013

rampant puritanism! yes, lets all forget delivering factually accurate information to vulnerable young people.

fishypants · Apr 19, 2013

It seems to me that this

In most states, there’s no requirement that these speakers offer students true information.

also relates to Narconon.

Anonymous · Apr 19, 2013

When did we devolve to this level of stupid?

Baywatch · Apr 19, 2013

Anonymous said: ↑

When did we devolve to this level of stupid?

There is no 'we'; the student in this matter isn't stupid. The principal is clearly some kind of fucking jerk.

Anonymous · Apr 19, 2013

This thread has a serious lack of high school sluts.

Golden Age of Protest · Apr 19, 2013

Anonymous said: ↑

rampant puritanism! yes, lets all forget delivering factually accurate information to vulnerable young people.

I cannot believe they let speakers like this into high schools.

RightOn · Apr 19, 2013

sounds like it is right out of 1962

Paroxetine Samurai · Apr 19, 2013

Golden Age of Protest said: ↑

I cannot believe they let speakers like this into high schools.

You wouldn't believe the kind of moonbattery schools would allow. If a school thinks that bold-face lying about a topic will fulfill the ends part of "Ends Justify The Means", then they will do it.

I'll just leave these videos here to counteract the moonbattery of the school:

Domelord Voorn · Apr 19, 2013

"Anonymous said: ↑

This thread has a serious lack of high school sluts.

System · Apr 19, 2013

what the serious fuck? ok someone fire that asshole (sorry for the curses but it seems needed in this senerio tbh)

Random guy · Apr 19, 2013

As an Eurofag, I find this whole thing hysterical!

Protesting student has a nice nerdy thing going for her though.

Paroxetine Samurai · Apr 19, 2013

"Random guy said: ↑

As an Eurofag, I find this whole thing hysterical!

As a USfag, I find the school allowing this moonbat in the same town, much less in their school and lesser still giving her moonbat sonata, to be just ripe of LOLs.

Sad that the school doesn't realize the moonbat is just a Christfag moonbat and is just begging for an ACLU lawlsuit.

"Random guy said: ↑

Protesting student has a nice nerdy thing going for her though.

Anonymous · Apr 19, 2013

"Domelord Voorn said: ↑

There's no need to bring your mum into this!

Random guy · Apr 19, 2013

"Paroxetine Samurai said: ↑

Pedobear

But seriously, this is partly going to play out as a popularity contest between the principal and the student. Who's going to win that contest, old gray-haired fundie principal Aulenbacher, or obviously intelligent and kind of hot in a nerdy way Campbell? And even if the fundie principal manages to slither out of it this time, who's side will time be on?

Aulenbacher:

Campbell:

I know who I'd put my money on.

fishypants · Apr 19, 2013

Baywatch said: ↑

There is no 'we'; the student in this matter isn't stupid. The principal is clearly some kind of fucking jerk.

I think that by 'we' anon meant 'the human race'.

Paroxetine Samurai · Apr 19, 2013

Random guy said: ↑

But seriously, this is partly going to play out as a popularity contest between the principal and the student. Who's going to win that contest, old gray-haired fundie principal Aulenbacher, or obviously intelligent and kind of hot in a nerdy way Campbell? And even if the fundie principal manages to slither out of it this time, who's side will time be on?

Aulenbacher:

Campbell:

I know who I'd put my money on.

Odds are good she'd be the victor even if the Principal wins. Granted, he'd be kicking one hell of a hornet's nest if that happens (and that's not saying he already has).

Anonymous · Apr 19, 2013

http://gawker.com/5994960/hs-princi...ools-abstinence only-policies-fails-miserably

After Campbell filed an injunction against Aulenbacher over his threats, Wellesley College took to Twitter to assure Campbell that the school "is excited to welcome you this fall."

Anonymous · Apr 19, 2013

fishypants said: ↑

It seems to me that this

also relates to Narconon.

Ugly people act ugly. What a stream of hatred and distain.

Golden Age of Protest · Apr 19, 2013

Paroxetine Samurai said: ↑

You wouldn't believe the kind of moonbattery schools would allow. If a school thinks that bold-face lying about a topic will fulfill the ends part of "Ends Justify The Means", then they will do it.

I'll just leave these videos here to counteract the moonbattery of the school:

Teller - the silent Bob of debunkery

Anonymous · Apr 19, 2013

PennyFax Time!!

http://gwhs.kana.k12.wv.us/staff/
Principal
George Aulenbacher

Birthday:

1/24/1969

Contact Information:

Phone: 348-7729

Email: gaulenbacher@kcs.kana.k12.wv.us

Phone
(304)-348-7729

Fax
(304)-344-4947

Street Address
1522 Tennis Club Road
Charleston, WV 25314

Email
Click Here to Email GWHS

Administration:

Principal
George Aulenbacher

Vice Principal
Brad Marano

Vice Principal
James Crawford

Curriculum
Assistant Principal
Gerrianne Simmons

Counselors:

9th Grade
Kackie Eller

10th Grade
Kevin Lilley

11th Grade
Jennifer Jackfert

12th Grade
Billie Walker

Athletics:

Athletic Director
Shawn Wheeler

Anonymous · Apr 19, 2013

pooned

Anonymous · Apr 19, 2013

Moar Pam Stenzel

http://www.teenmania.com
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teen_Mania_Ministries

Its primary program includes the Battle Cry Campaign and "Acquire the Fire" events, described by one writer as "a mix of pep rally, rock concert and church service,"[1] that are held in over 30 cities across the United States and Canada each year. The ministry focuses much of its energy towards its domestic and overseas mission trips, operated under the title "Global Expeditions". Teen Mania also operates a one-year-long residential leadership training program on its campus, titled the Honor Academy, aimed towards high school graduates, and college students. Teen Mania's media branch of the organization works as a separate unit, titled the "Center for Creative Media", which provides a two-year internship for students desiring to work in live events, new media, television, and audio fields of the media industry.
The ministry has faced criticism for its use of overtly militaristic symbolism, as well as techniques that have been compared as similar to military training.

http://teenmaniawatch.blogspot.com
http://teenmaniawatch.blogspot.com/2010/04/my-teen-mania-experience.html
http://www.acquiretheevidence.com/sources/past-endorsers-and-participants.html

Speakers at "Stand Up Florida," St. Petersburg, Florida, March 2-3, 2001 (from the event manual)

Pam Stenzel

Read this for cult terror

Anonymous · Apr 20, 2013

Anonymous said: ↑

Moar Pam Stenzel

Involved in fundie cult, that figures.

Sekee · Apr 20, 2013

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- At a crowded, often testy Kanawha County school board meeting Thursday, board member Becky Jordon announced that her husband donated money to a religious group to bring a controversial abstinence-only speaker to two public schools and a church last week.
That admission was part of a heated defense of the speaker's presence in the schools, and George Washington High School Principal George Aulenbacher's role in bringing her there.
"Everybody needs to hear it," she said. "My voice is loud, and that's how Ms. Stenzel's was, because sometimes you need to get everyone's attention."
Cont...
http://www.dailymail.com/News/Kanawha/201304180278

Anonymous · Apr 20, 2013

http://www.wrtl.org/pdf/SpeakersBureau.pdf
Stenzel, Pam

Founder of Enlighten Communications
Littleton, Colorado

Pam Stenzel, founder of Enlighten Communications,
Inc., is a dynamic speaker who brings straight
talk to teens about abstinence, se
x and its consequences, and the li
fe/death choices that teens make
every day.

Topics Addressed

Abstinence Contact via phone: 1-888-978-0108
Sex Travels from Colorado
STDs, Dating and Relationships Charges:
$3,500 - $5,000 Honorarium, plus travel expenses
1-888-978-0108

Anonymous · Apr 20, 2013

Wow, they pay that much just to be a moron. who knew?

fishypants · Apr 23, 2013

http://www.salon.com/2013/04/21/no_one_has_ever_had_more_than_one_partner_and_not_paid/

SIECUS’ ultimate conclusion about Stenzel was that her DVD “Sex Still Has a Price Tag,” which is sold to public schools for $30 a pop, “is based on fear and shame; designed to control young people’s sexual behavior by instilling in them feelings of dread, guilt, and embarrassment.”

The report argues that “in both her tone and her words, Stenzel appears to have an intense dislike or at least distrust of the young people she is speaking to, and seems to see her goal as that of a drill sergeant or prison guard who is there to keep them in line and dole out punishment.”

It adds, “Moreover, Stenzel relies on inaccurate statistics and passes off gross exaggerations and complete falsehoods as fact.”

As SIECUS concluded, her curriculum represents “the worst kind of abstinence-only-until-marriage programming.”

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