The Education of Shelby Knox

The Education of Shelby Knox is 2005 documentary film that tells the comingofage story of public speaker and feminist Shelby Knox, a teenager who joins a campaign for comprehensive sex education in the high schools of Lubbock, Texas. TEOSK was an official selection of the Sundance Film Festival in 2005 and aired on PBS P.O.V. series that same year. It was directed and produced by Marion Lipschutz and Rose Rosenblatt.

Shelby Knox is a deeply religious Southern Baptist teenager who joins the Lubbock Youth Commission, a group of high school students representing a youth voice in city government. When the teens confront Lubbocks sexual health crisis and campaign for comprehensive sex education, Knox throws herself into the battle with missionary fervor, struggling to reconcile her newfound political beliefs with her conservative religious views. When the campaign broadens to include a fight for a gaystraight alliance, Knox must confront her family and pastor in this comingofage story.The Dixie Chicks 2006 album Taking the Long Way features a track titled Lubbock or Leave It, which is based on The Education of Shelby Knox. When the song came out, the groups member Emily Robison told the press Wed seen a documentary called The Education of Shelby Knox, which was about a girl ... trying to get Lubbock to teach sex education in the schools. Lubbock has one of the highest rates of teen pregnancy and STDs in the U.S., so it really showed what happens when you keep that information away from people. Lead singer Natalie Maines, who is from Lubbock, subsequently spoke during a 2006 episode of VH1 Storytellers about watching the film and drawing from her own experiences of living there to write the song. ........

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