I guess STD's are on the rise in Minnesota.  Have been since 2003. and peaking this year (2007)

huh.

You'd think that with the institution of the extremely effective and very cost-saving required abstinance-only requirement that the state puts on funding for Sex Ed (and has since about oh, 2003) that rates would be plummeting as teens stop having sex in droves.

You'd think that just telling them to not have sex would make them stop.  After all, Condoms and such cause MORE STDs because they give a false sense of security. 

So, you would expect the STD rate to go down, not up, and you certainly wouldn't expect the rate to go up significantly more in the age group of the students who benefit from the improvement of moving to an abstinance-only sex-ed curriculum...

...God must be testing us for his own mysterious purposes, by giving virgins STDs.

Yeah.  That's it.

(If your kid has comprehensive sex ed in Minnesota, it is because your school district said "no" to the state funding, and funded the sex ed themselves.  Please write your school board, and say "thank you".)

More info:

http://www.siecus.org/policy/PUpdates/pdate0239.html