When I was a child and asked about sex to my mother she always gave me the AGE appropreant answer to my question. My entire school district is taking the abstinace only approach to sex education which is not faring well, seeing as how we still lead the nation in teen pregnacies and STDs per capita. I really think that sex education needs to be a course on high school and it should be required. I was in Biology the other day and we were talking about the sperm and the egg, which is frowned upon by the district. A girl exclaims " So how long do we sit on the egg once we lay it ?" she was dead seriuos and noone laughed or even smiled. The teacher was speechless to the question, she fianally askd if the girl was seriuos and her response comfirmed that she was. I am sorry but when a Jr. in High School thinks that she lays eggs and sits on them, I think that it is time for emergency Sex Education. Ed Anisworth is the answer to my school distrcits sex education, this is the man that says " If you have sex you will die", no lie had to sit though 3 years of his lectures. I even questioned his facts which at the beginning he encouraged and was promtly removed when Ed couldn't come up with a answer. I am fuirious that the students are being told lies as truths, "If you are gay you will get AIDS and kill everyone you love, then not feel sorry for it because your gay." That is one of the points Ed makes in his lectures that if your gay or become gay you will kill everyone with AIDS and not care. I am shocked that this man is even allowed to talk to kids about sex. Ed goes on to say that masterbation can lead to seriouos health problems,such as cancer or asthma ,that if you do it your going to break your arm or wirst. This truley offeneds me because masterbation is perfectly healthy in my oppinon and could help kids remain abstanent. I could personally give a better talk with more accurate information. I am astonished that schools are still allowed to teach abstinace only method, becuase kids obviously becoming sexualy active younger and younger. Parents are to ashamed to talk about how their kid came to be, so it falls to the schools to educate the kids about sex. I was even asked to not comeback to "Sex Eds " talk because I might insight a wave of distrust amoung the students. Even when my mom was in school they were showed videos and given talks about sex and more inportantly they were given Facts not lies. I asked a member of the school borad, whom I knew personaly, why our sex education was abstinace only ? Her reply was that too many parnets were uncomfrontable with other sex education programs. You already have to have a premission slip to go to the "Talks" so they can't be that uncomfrontable with their kids being thaught about sex. Most girls in my school don't know what a condom is and the guys rule of thumb is " take what you can get no matter what" which means that most students aren't educated that Birth Control exist or is available to them. We are not doing the next generations any favors by side stepping the issue, only setting us back about 50 years.
This poilcy is outdated and only ridiculling our youths inteligence.
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Parents are to ashamed to talk about how their kid came to be, so it falls to the schools to educate the kids about sex.
it should not solely fall into the school's hands to educate our youth about sex. It is the parents job, no matter how uncomfortable it makes them. I have always believed that a parents job is to prepare their kid for the world when they leave the nest. And nowadays, as you pointed out, kids are having sex earlier and earlier, so it is also a problem in the nest. I have actually been apart of protests against abstinance only sex education in the school. When I was a sophomore in high school, our student government actually came up with a peer mentoring program that was sponsored by Red Cross. A few select individuals (myself included) went to the red cross and had two days of training on HIV/AIDS and also on sexually transmitted diseases, birth control and other sexually related topics. I would be angry as Hell if my daughter's were being taught the bullcrap you just said you had to sit through. I will definitely give my kids condoms if they are sexually active, and I will stress that they use them. I will also educate them on birth control and their options. I don't want them going at it just because it feels good and not have all the consequences weighing on their conscience.
No day but today
-RENT
I agree because if/when I have kids I don't want them learning about sex from school; but then again, kids ARE learning about sex from TV. That is ten times worse, and since parents aren't being an active enough part of kid's lives to prevent them from having kids and/or STDs at an early age then what are we supposed to do??
We're supposed to make a difference this time around!!! Make an impression on the next generation. This is our future we're raising, so we should give to it what we think our future should look like. I know I would be mad if my children were taught abstinance only education, but I would at least know that I was there telling them the alternatives. That's what parents need to do...they need to be informed of what their kids are being taught and take a proactive role in teaching them the alternatives if they don't believe in what is being taught at school. Parents could take a more active role on the PTA or protest/petition the school board. Parents can not be lazy about being parents and then get mad at the results!!!!
No day but today
-RENT
More parents talk to their kids about sex than ever before. If any ones parents are the exception consider TV and the internet. More sexual and relationship storylines on TV, more nudity and even graphic pornography on the internet than ANY generation has had since the entire family quit living in a single room house, and had all of their 10 kids at home.....Hold on that was only a couple of generations ago for most people.
Remember 'teen pregnancy' was called 'shotgun wedding' in your great grandparents day.
A fact is always better than an ideal