CONTROVERSY > Should 11-Year-Olds Be Taught How to Use a Condom?
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2011/08/26 21:16:58
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Yeah. You read that right.
We don't know how sex education classes are nowadays, but ours consisted of a scary video of some woman in labor going through what looked like the most painful experience of her life and a stern "Don't have sex before marriage!" talk from our school principal.
But it looks like times have changed -- in New York City at least. The metropolitan city is reforming the way they look at sex education and will begin implementing a more controversial curriculum starting this year.
What does that mean, exactly? Well, for starters, public middle schools and high schools in the city will be given lessons on how to successfully use a condom and a talk on the appropriate age for sexual activity.
The sex talk we can understand, but a tutorial on how to use a condom? At eleven years old?! That seems a bit excessive.
The brand new mandate is a part of New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's strategy to improve the quality of life for black and Latino teenagers who, according to city statistics, are far more likely to have unplanned pregnancies and get STD's compared to their white peers.
“It’s obviously something that applies to all boys and all girls,” Linda Gibbs, deputy mayor for health and human services, told the New York Times. “But
when we look at the biggest disadvantages that kids in our city face, it is blacks and Latinos that are most affected by the consequences of early sexual behavior and unprotected sex.”
Do you think New York's sex education mandate is a step in the right direction?
We don't know how sex education classes are nowadays, but ours consisted of a scary video of some woman in labor going through what looked like the most painful experience of her life and a stern "Don't have sex before marriage!" talk from our school principal.
But it looks like times have changed -- in New York City at least. The metropolitan city is reforming the way they look at sex education and will begin implementing a more controversial curriculum starting this year.
What does that mean, exactly? Well, for starters, public middle schools and high schools in the city will be given lessons on how to successfully use a condom and a talk on the appropriate age for sexual activity.
The sex talk we can understand, but a tutorial on how to use a condom? At eleven years old?! That seems a bit excessive.
The brand new mandate is a part of New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's strategy to improve the quality of life for black and Latino teenagers who, according to city statistics, are far more likely to have unplanned pregnancies and get STD's compared to their white peers.
“It’s obviously something that applies to all boys and all girls,” Linda Gibbs, deputy mayor for health and human services, told the New York Times. “But
when we look at the biggest disadvantages that kids in our city face, it is blacks and Latinos that are most affected by the consequences of early sexual behavior and unprotected sex.”
Do you think New York's sex education mandate is a step in the right direction?
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☆The Rock☆ * AFCL* The Sher... 2011/08/27 21:29:16
That was just what I needed at age 11.
Get me started out in life with the right things in mind.
You bet.;-)
people will find out about sex naturally i found out when i was 9 on the school playground
I did not have to learn how to use one because I did never use one. I learned about the women’s period and cycles and then a little bit of mortification and control of my basic animal instincts and had no problems at all. We are given the capacities to dominate and control our bodies because of the fact we are intelligent beings but in a society in which every time our children demand something from parents they give them what they want, there is when the problem begins. Just, give me, give me, give me, I want, I want, I want, I want…and then we satisfied their wants because we don’t want to be annoyed, or they ask us something when in front of other people and we don’t want to be embarrassed and so on and so forth. We as parents have to learn how to say No!!! We as parents have to learn about limits and teach our children to learn to build up limits and how to learn self-denial and to learn to wait. (I don’t want to talk about the benefits of the Bible in this way, but as they took it out of the school and lives then “The horse lost its reins”). I think that we have to be grateful for these trouble times with the economy. I think that since we as society have not been able to learn in times of plenty it is now in these scarcity times when we have to learn and learn the hard way. In other wards economic problems are forcing us to learn and to learn the hard way.
Children having children.
All turning the young minds to sex it has been shown over and over again how young people are reckless even though they know better.
Children having children.
All turning the young minds to sex it has been shown over and over again how young people are reckless even though they know better.
Children having children.
All turning the young minds to sex it has been shown over and over again how young people are reckless even though they know better.