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"  Well, we officially have a new hero: A high school senior in West Virginia is taking on the issues of sub-par sexual education and slut-shaming\u2014and she&amp;#039;s doing it even while getting majorly threatened by her own principal, to boot.  Katelyn Campbell of George Washington High School recently protested a school assembly with abstinence-only advocate Pam Stenzel, filing a report with the ACLU that the lecture was not only giving students factually inaccurate info about sex, but that Stenzel&amp;#039;s message\u2014in which she told students she could, &amp;quot;look at any one of you in the eyes right now and tell if you&amp;#039;re going to be promiscuous&amp;quot;\u2014was demeaning.  Her actions, however, seriously pissed off her principal, George Aulenbacher, who called Campbell a &amp;quot;backstabber&amp;quot; and said he was going to call the admissions at Wellesley College, where she will be going in the fall, to discredit her character and, one would guess, convince them to rethink admitting her to the school.  &amp;quot;He threatened me and my future in order to put forth his own personal agenda and make teachers and students feel they can&amp;#039;t speak up because of fear of retaliation,&amp;quot; she told a local paper of the incident.  But did his bullying make her back down? Heck no. Instead, Campbell filed an injunction against the guy. (You go, girl!)  She believes that she and her fellow students should be informed about birth control\u2014 especially since West Virginia is in the top ten of states with the highest teen pregnancy rates\u2014rather than get berated by messages like the ones in Stenzel&amp;#039;s lecture, which allegedly also included such gems as, &amp;quot;if you take birth control, your mother probably hates you.&amp;quot; (Um. Wow. If this is the par for the course content of abstinence-only education, we are in more trouble than we thought.)  We give major props to Campbell for standing up for what she believes is right, even after she faced some seriously awful (and childish) repercussions from her principal, who is supposed to be the adult here. It&amp;#039;s women like her that give us hope for the future as far as sex-ed is concerned.  Want more from Natasha? Follow her on Twitter or find her on Facebook. Photo: iStockphoto "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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