Sex education should start in 4th grade. A kid is going to be 10. Unfortunately by this age some kids are already going to be exploring sex in some form. There are kids at this age that get pregnant, so it's not unheard. Sex education should be repeated every year until the child graduates. Condemns should be available in the school starting in 9th grade. Teaching abstanence is fine, but it shouldn't be the only lesson taught. Sex is a nautral part of human behavior.Too many parents don't talk to their kids soon enough or at all about sex. Can we really count on parents to teach kids about sex?
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Maybe it's because I would deffinately talk to my own children and not let them be governed by people I barely knew. I do understand where you are coming from though. I would rather have kids know about sex from someone the instead of experimenting on their own with no knowledge. I don;t believe we can always count on our parents, however, if a school was having a sex ed. class and I was uniformed I would be irrate and immediately take my child out of there. I would not let the school teach my child sex ed. I went through that and a lot of that crap was uncalled for.
I'm unclear what you mean by the last line of your post. "I went through that and a lot of that crap was uncalled for." Please elaborate. Why wouldn't you want a school to teach sex education?
The first time was introduce to sex ed I watched a puppet show with children touching eachother saying ohhhh that feels good...... I was in second grade. The parents were not informed and then I started asking my mother questions wow, that went bad. anyway, then the next time I had sex ed class was maditory and I was in 4th grade. We learned how two people had sex together to make a baby...but it was just the usuall insert this here stuff, it was almost like a porn show. The older I got the better sex ed got. but I would never let my children participate.
Sex is natural. There should be more of a stigma for picking your nose than having sex. Teach sex at home and at school as early as your child is able to understand. Dont sugar coat. Children are not stupid. I rather my children here from me than me than anyone else.
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth!~JFK
The reason why it is such a stigma is because we do not all share the same values. yes you right, children are not stupid. However, their innocents is something that should be kept as longer then age 10. Something some of us forget is that our children are not as smart as we are.
Innoncence is lost before 10. Sex is everywhere in commercials, newspapers, hidden agendas in tv shows. if a child can read they will begin to understand. I see no point in stopping a child from learning about the evils of the world. Sugarcoating only leads to stigmas.
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth!~JFK
Hey, what do you have against nose pickers?
I just dont like boogers all over.
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth!~JFK
Kids can learn about sex because adults either tell them about it, they find out about it on their own or they're forced into it. If the latter happens they may or may not understand what's happening to them. How would you want your child to learn about sex?
i taught and learned on my own and through sex ed classes. i began to learn at 9 so "innocence" is lost on me. But almost 10 years later i am still a virgin. Go figure.
The "talk" is going to happen when i feel my child is mature enugh not based on age. I will be the first and then the school system will hopefully back me up.
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth!~JFK
In many households the kids get condemned well before 4th grade.
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One problem with your proposal is that local school boards in the U.S. have a lot of control over the curriculum. So, yeah, you can mandate the teaching of sexual education, but in many localities they'll just set up a lesson plan that looks like this:
Week 1: Abstinence
Week 2: Abstinence
Week 3: Abstinence
Week 4: Abstinence
Week 5: Abstinence
Week 6: Abstinence
Week 7: Abstinence
Week 8: Abstinence
Week 9: Abstinence
After the weeks are up, the kids will be given the option to switch to an "elective" alternative course, say, oh, I don't know, "The Bible as Literature", that's pretty light on the literature and pretty heavy on the Bible.
A "Bible As Literature" class shouldn't even be offered in a public school. Sex education can we steared away from only teaching abstinence if we demand more and different ideas from our government officials.
That didn't stop my high school in Indiana from offering one.
But should "Bible as Literature" classes be allowed at publicly-funded universities?
The Supreme Court has a habit of distinguishing between high schools and colleges when it comes to First Amendment issues, but there's nothing actually in the Constitution that expresses such a difference.
It would be interesting if these standardized tests required by the No Child Left Behind act had a section that tested students' sexual literacy.
Just think, if high school kids were tested on female anatomy such that they had to know where the clitoris is, we'd have an entire generation of happier women!
Why shouldn't the class be offered. It's not like it is manditory. I don't believe in some of the things they teach in Art Appreciation, so I didn't take it again. The beauty of elective. You can choose
Why shouldn't the class be offered. It's not like it is manditory. I don't believe in some of the things they teach in Art Appreciation, so I didn't take it again. oh the beauty of electives. You can choose
My neighbor is 13 and she often comes to my house to ask me if things her sister and friends tell her about sex are true. Her 18 year old sister recently told her she can get prignant from oral sex! I don't even know how that's supposed to work. Any advice I give Madison always starts with, "It's better to wait to have sex, but if you're going to do it use a condomn." I tell her emotionally why it's better to wait, talk to her about diseases and the risk of pregnancy. I wish her family talked to her about sex, but they don't. She said she won't be taught sex ed until 10th grade. How many kids do you think are going to be virgins at that point?
Even if a majority of 10th graders are still virgins at the beginning of the school year, that's not an argument against earlier sex education.
Most people wouldn't get measles, mumps, or rubella even if not vaccinated, but we require everyone to be immunized because of the negative impacts upon a minority of the population should one of the diseases begin to run rampant.
In a sense, being able to deal with sex is the single most fundamental life skill, because if there is no sex, there is no verterbrate life.
Okay, there are more fundamental life skills, but most first-world kids don't need to be taught how to avoid getting eaten by leopards.
I do agree, however, I believe if the child's parents wish to teach sex education instead of the school I think parents should be able to remove their children from the class. In the school I went to in middle school, sex education was madatory and if you wanted to advance to the next grade you had to go. That sex education class was very informative for me and wasn't anything shocking. But, four kids in my class transfered out to another school because their parents wouldn't let them take the class.