http://www.cnn.com/2011/10/25/us/new...html?hpt=hp_t2 A new sexual education curriculum provided by the New York City Department of Education is raising eyebrows among some parents concerned with the program's level of detail and overall message. One group, The NYC Parents' Choice Coalition, has been particularly outspoken against the new curriculum and held a press conference Monday to voice their concerns. "I know that as my grandchildren, I want them to be able to know that abstinence is an option," Sylvia Laughlin, a group member, said at the press conference. "It's something they have a right to choose." However, the Department of Education insists that while the program would begin sexual education classes in middle school and provide far more in-depth instruction regarding safe-sex practices, abstinence would continue to be taught. The more you tell teenagers not to do something, the more they'll want to do it. Obviously teenagers are having sex so you can't just teach abstinence especially if they already have done it. Their parents or guardians need to be the ones teaching their kids about safe sex practices; schools really shouldn't be the ones teaching kids that or telling them about it.