I saw this and thought it was great. Hopefully more young women and men will begin to speak up and take charge of their lives. It was really inspiring to watch her deal with everything and stand by her principals.

Netflix currently has this on their Instant View line-up.

"speaking her truth about sex, feminism, and America"

Hooray for relativism.

Lubbock is my hometown. Shelby went to my same high school a few years after I graduated. The whole documentary is really pretty accurate about the state of things. Furthermore (though you don't really get this from the film), LHS is probably the most liberal, best-educated high school in town. So this doesn't even compare to what happens at the other three.

Ugh. So disappointing. But hey, that's why I got the heck outta there!

Lubbock is my hometown. Shelby Knox went to my high school a few years after I graduated. The documentary is pretty accurate, and the sad part is (which you don't really get from the film), LHS probably has the most liberal students, teachers, and administrators in town.

Shelby Knox is awesome. I saw the documentary in one of my classes in college a few years ago and loved it so much I went out and bought it right after. Since then I have been following all the other work she has done. She is definitely one very amazing person.

I'm not a practicing Christian, but it infuriates me when Fundamentalist (usually called "Evangelical") Christians co-opt the term Christian for their own purposes. In other words, if you are not one of "our kind of Christian," you are no kind of Christian at all.

wunderwoman:
Did you have "sex Ed" Ainsworth? I did (in a very small rural town in the Texas Panhandle), and I hope the documentary highlights just how creepy and dangerous this guy is. Funny thing is, I had to come to Lubbock from said small town to even unlearn all of his crap (yay college dorms). And hsp, thanks for the netflix nod--if this were any other film about Lubbock, they'd have it every video store, but, alas, I have yet to get my hands on a copy, so I will watch it tonight thanks to the magic of the internet!

wunderwoman:
Did you have "sex Ed" Ainsworth? I did (in a very small rural town in the Texas Panhandle), and I hope the documentary highlights just how creepy and dangerous this guy is. Funny thing is, I had to come to Lubbock from said small town to even unlearn all of his crap (yay college dorms). And hsp, thanks for the netflix nod--if this were any other film about Lubbock, they'd have it every video store, but, alas, I have yet to get my hands on a copy, so I will watch it tonight thanks to the magic of the internet!

I also spent years out in Lubbock. I was there when Shelby was still in high school and the documentary came out - it was a few years ago. I remember at the time reading about it in the local paper but not being able to find it anywhere in town.

I'm so glad to see that Shelby and the documentary have made it to a wider platform! And even though Lubbock is your stereotypical uber-conservative Texas cowboy town, the university there brings in a lot of multicultural students and profs and the town does have its liberal side. I kinda miss being there...

TexasMomma, then you might be interested in hearing that I saw The Education of Shelby Knox here in Sweden. At a film festival, though, so I don't know if it counts :)

(and of course, being European, it just fed my anti-American prejudices! ;) )