This isn't easy to answer. I am a parent and a teacher. I have taught sex ed to grade six and seven students -this is mainly the reproductive system and sexually transmitted disease prevention. In a perfect world all parents would be comfortable talking to their children but they aren't. Some are really happy to have the school do it. Parents who are worried that they might disagree with what the school will teach can speak to the teacher and find out what will be taught. They can chose to have supplement with their own views or possible teach at home and have the child receive credit for that. Where I live the government mandated curriculum requires that grade seven students be taught how to prevent sexually transmitted diseases. I teach my students that the number one, guaranteed method is abstinence. I teach about the diseases pretty explicitly including the risk of death from some and the eventual inevitability of death from HIV/AIDS. Then I talk about condoms and I show how to put a condom on ( on a cucumber if you must know) We also talk about the repercussions emotionally and socially of being sexually active and of having a baby. I have had amazing and very mature conversations with students and I allow them to ask me anything. They learn very quickly tha...
This isn't easy to answer. I am a parent and a teacher. I have taught sex ed to grade six and seven students -this is mainly the reproductive system and sexually transmitted disease prevention. In a perfect world all parents would be comfortable talking to their children but they aren't. Some are really happy to have the school do it. Parents who are worried that they might disagree with what the school will teach can speak to the teacher and find out what will be taught. They can chose to have supplement with their own views or possible teach at home and have the child receive credit for that. Where I live the government mandated curriculum requires that grade seven students be taught how to prevent sexually transmitted diseases. I teach my students that the number one, guaranteed method is abstinence. I teach about the diseases pretty explicitly including the risk of death from some and the eventual inevitability of death from HIV/AIDS. Then I talk about condoms and I show how to put a condom on ( on a cucumber if you must know) We also talk about the repercussions emotionally and socially of being sexually active and of having a baby. I have had amazing and very mature conversations with students and I allow them to ask me anything. They learn very quickly that they can not embarrass me and I will give a truthful answer. I have had students ask me when is the right time to have sex, ie what is the right age. I tell them that first and foremost they must discuss that with their parents because everyone in the class will come from families with varying values and opinions on this subject. I remind them of the other things we have talked about-the risks and consequences- and how that plays apart in the decision. We talk about how hormones make it hard to resist and how to deal with that.
I have never had a parent complain and I have had feedback that they are grateful.
I am equally as open with my own fifteen year old son and he feels comfortable asking me anything. He has concluded that he doesn't think he will have sex for quite awhile, even though he would kind of like to.
(more)I have never had a parent complain and I have had feedback that they are grateful.
I am equally as open with my own fifteen year old son and he feels comfortable asking me anything. He has concluded that he doesn't think he will have sex for quite awhile, even though he would kind of like to.
Abstinence-only sex ed is like just-hold-it potty training.
Sex is seemingly a moral issue. Is it up to the public or the parents to instill moral values?
2nd, learning about it from peer is stupid, because A LOT of kids promote it, they dont talk about how it could affect you for the rest of your life it you have sex.
3rd, schools make a point when they talk about it, plus its a hell of alot more comfortable than having your parents talk to you about it. i remember when they were telling me about it at school.. they almost try to scare you into not having sex, but im glad they did because ive been put in that situation a few times.
I think learning it from school would be the best.
The byline that abstinence only doesn't work is ignorant of the news that came out last week that a very in depth study sponsored by the US government found that the abstinence only education has the highest rate of success. The lowest rate of success was sex education where they teach about "safe sex". A normal health class that only adresses healthy living with no emphasis at all on sex actually came in above sex education. So, it seems that your information is not correct.
LEARN TO TALK TO YOUR CHILDREN AS SOON AS THEY CAN UNDERSTAND :)
This IS missing in most sex ed....
Giving "boys and girls" the power to say no, or get lost, without being ridiculed or made to feel bad if they don't give it up! Teach them HOW to do this.
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Lol, but they went into VERY specific things about performance... They had us draw the other gender's body naked... They wanted us to detail the genitals more... like a LOT more... They seemed to encourage promiscuity as if it were a moral value.
It was horrible.
The vast majority of sex ed when i was in school was about biology and how human sexuality works, not the morality behind it. Did they tell you "this is right" or "this is wrong"? If they did that's a major First Amendment Violation.