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Blair kids’ spelling is VD… very dab.

A national survey that reported 25 percent of America’s teen girls have an STD has even dire consequences for Blair County’s youth. According to the survey-takers, 25 percent of Blair County’s teens were unable to spell STD.

“Now, does that start out with a soft ‘c’ or is it, like, start with a ‘k,’ or something,” said Blair County teen, Karrianne Olenhaufer. “OMG! This is, like, hard.”

Jefferson Davis, a representative of the Department of Health, said the inability to spell an acronym is just the start of the county’s educational woes.

“We really had trouble with the survey in Blair County,” said Davis as he conducted the survey on sexually transmitted diseases in the county. “It appears that not only did the teens in the county not know what VD was, they couldn’t spell it.”

Davis added that those who could spell it thought it was an abbreviation for Valentine’s Day.

Further study indicated just how mixed up teens are academically. They thought that syphilis was a Greek myth and gonorrhea was Brazil’s largest city.

Davis said they think this illiteracy may have skewed the county’s results.

“We think sexual health may not be an issue in Blair County,” said Davis. “Placing a few letters together in some sort of intelligent fashion, apparently, is.”

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