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Post by StellaFantasia on Feb 25, 2004 12:54:36 GMT -5
I was just reading a thread in Miscellaneous about one of those "carry around an egg; it represents a baby" exercises at school, and it got me thinking. Most of the people on this board seem to be in junior high or high school, so I was wondering what approach your school takes to the sensitive subject? Are you preached at about abstinence, or are you taught about birth control? Is the subject ignored altogether? How do you feel about how your school handles it?
I remember having a sex ed unit as part of a health class, but it seemed that the school was pretty nervous that people would complain, so they just stuck to explaining what the anatomy of reproductive organs was instead of telling us anything useful about birth control or how to avoid disease.
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Post by Madamluna on Feb 25, 2004 15:19:03 GMT -5
We're super-liberal at my school, so not only is sex ed taught, Planned Parenthood is brought and we're thoroughly educated about such and such birth control versus other such and such birth control. It's awesome, we get to make tons of jokes about The Ring. Plus my teacher is very blunt and direct about sensitive subjects.
I'm all for sex ed being taught in schools. If your parents don't teach you and the school doesn't teach you, then you're going to grow up thinking that gosh gee willikers, the stork really does bring babies, AIDS doesn't exist, and you have nothing to worry about now that your drink was just spiked and someone's busily raping you.
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Post by songbird11989 on Feb 25, 2004 16:39:22 GMT -5
[glow=red,2,300]in high school you have to take some parenthood class i think, i'm not sure, and health...only one though. they don't really emphasize it much since we had 2 years of health in middle school and some in elementary[/glow]
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Post by lucklemony on Feb 25, 2004 16:46:23 GMT -5
in grade 7, we had it for 2 weeks. we had this instructor lady come in. it was terrible, and very embarrasing. im all against sex ed.
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Post by StellaFantasia on Feb 25, 2004 18:42:27 GMT -5
Are you against it because it's embarrassing, or because you don't think people should know about sex until their wedding night? You've got to admit, listening to some stranger for two weeks straight is still way less embarrassing than listening to your parents trying to explain it. Not that my parents ever did. Or a stranger. I didn't find out til my wedding night.
Just kidding.
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Post by Zombie-chan on Feb 25, 2004 18:44:26 GMT -5
In my school system, we have to have it starting in 5th grade and going quite a while....senior year, I think. It's not a pretty picture.
On a side note, my mom was in the hospital for surgery last spring, so Dad and I went to visit her. We were walking out through the wing with the obstetricians and other pregnancy-related services, when we ran into my sex ed teacher....I don't want to know what she was thinking.
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Post by lucklemony on Feb 25, 2004 18:45:45 GMT -5
im just saying, explaining this to a 13 year old is deranged. when your older yes, but younger no. im not saying its not good to have to class, but i was to young.
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Post by Madamluna on Feb 25, 2004 18:58:43 GMT -5
Dude, I had sex ed when I was like ELEVEN, and my parents told me about it when I was NINE. I think. Or ten. I didn't think it was icky at the time, I was just "ohhh, so that's how it happens! I'm enlightened now!" Before that I just thought spermities came out of your tongue or something.
But if it had just stopped there I would be in big trouble. I'm glad I learned about the value of abstinence and birth control and healthy sexual values (it's not bad, but don't rush into it, basically) later on when I was able to understand it all more. I'm fourteen now FYI.
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Post by Charles Vane on Feb 25, 2004 19:25:09 GMT -5
They didn't teach it much in grade school because our school wasn't.. good. And I remember when they did a little bit of educating on it, half the class kept giggling. It was very annoying. They also just talked about no sex is the only safe sex.
I think everyone says that though because it's the truth. That's what they say in highschool too, but we did talk about abortions and condoms, we had a health class freshman year.
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Post by Hermedy on Feb 25, 2004 20:03:26 GMT -5
Hahaha, sex ed is the coolest. I loved it. I had it in 5th, 7th and 9th grade.
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Post by songbird11989 on Feb 25, 2004 20:07:29 GMT -5
[glow=red,2,300]i think sex ed for girls pretty much is a waste of time, because usually parents tell their young daughters about that stuff when they get their period. it is good to be educated about it though...my school stresses too much about aids and hiv, not that it isnt important, but they don't tell you about the other stds out their, which can mislead some kids into thinking that there arent other diseases. [/glow]
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Post by negativenine on Feb 25, 2004 22:29:21 GMT -5
Ha. Well, sex ed is definitely needed in schools. I mean... most people are rather embarrassed to have their parents lecture them about how to have safe sex and what STDs are and doing it in a school course is just generally a better way.
In my school sex ed was fun and we just joked around and were immature but we learned what we needed to know. We had sex ed from grades 5 to 9... it got a little repetitive, but at least we know it now.
They didn't really preach to us. They did say "yeah, the only real safe sex is no sex." and that we probably weren't prepared for it, but they taught us what to do if we decided to have sex.
The thing that gets to me is that here they don't teach the students in catholic schools ANYTHING about sex ed, assuming that they'll be chaste and then get married and then magically know everything. And if they don't... well.... it just won't happen? Ugh. Yeah right. Kids do need to be informed.
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Post by Carly is Spiffy on Feb 26, 2004 14:06:39 GMT -5
Yes, I definitely agree that sex ed should be taught in school. We need to know things like how to be safe and methods of protecting ourselves.....I mean I do agree that AIDS and HIV are stressed ALOT, but they also mean ALOT, so I think they go hand in hand. We do not, however, focus on many other devistating STDs, such a Chlamydia, etc. Random statistic: 1 in 3 college girls have Chlamydia. Scary thought, heh? Abstinence all the way!  |
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Post by Pucca on Feb 26, 2004 14:46:49 GMT -5
We had sex ed in year 6 and it is leading up to year 9.
I am in year 8 at the moment and we learn about STDs, safe sex, adolesance and relationships. We are at the moment actually. Some people in my form just laugh all the way through the talks/videos but most people do learn things from it. In year 7 we had the nurse coming in and we had to fill out forms and watch videos.
I think you should do Sex ed in school.
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Post by SlightlyMad on Feb 26, 2004 14:52:59 GMT -5
Is it bad in YR 6
i'm in yr6 eeek
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