Shelby, a bright, young, Christian woman calls Lubbock, Texas home — where boys will be boys, pastors will be righteous, and the teen gonnorhea rate will eclipse the national average. When she decides to spearhead a campaign to bring nonsecular sex education to Lubbock high schools, Shelby finds herself in they eye of a complex storm. Negotiating a mix of politics, morality, and personal discovery, she remains an irrepressible champion of the underdog. This funny portrait of a sometimes frightening town, an endearing family, and a comically stubborn opposition, Education teaches volumes about the one topic American can't not talk about enough.

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