I was wondering something about s*x education in schools?

Question

Do the schools teach s*x education anymore. I am in my 30's and when I went to school the schools told us about it. As a parent would you be offended if the schools did teach your children about s*x?

Answer 1

WHAT s*x education? Our current president put an abstience ONLY program in place of sexual education.

No wonder the number of teen pregnancies are sky rocketing! Blame not only the lack of parenting but the school systems.

Answer 2

I''m in my almost 40's and i'm not sure anymore. But with all the stuff that's out there, I feel parents need the extra help in speaking about s*x and birth control.

Answer 3

Well we are taught from elementary school up to high school about s*x. In my education system we are taught in elementry school in about 5th grade that your body changes and what periods are and how to deal with them. I am not sure about what they teach the men but I can only assume its just things about their body. Then in middle school everyone is brought into a giant auditorium. We were separated from the men so we wouldn't be too scared or shy to ask other questions. We were taught about abstinence and also about ways to prevent pregnancy. We had to take tests on the functions of both sexes and are taught how birth control works and which the best ones in the area are and what they do. We had to know this in order to pass. This is also taught in health class. In high school we don't really have a "s*x ed" class, we just call it heath, where you learn basically the same things along with diseases and how to avoid them, what to do if you're pregnant, steroids and all sorts of things. This is a public school. So it really depends on where your child is going, what state you live in, what school he or she is going too, each school is different but the information I learned was very valuable and I am grateful for it because I would have NEVER known anything like that if it wasn't taught to me.

Answer 4

Absolutely not. I think to learn about reproduction is fine when taught in school. I feel when children are taught in a class of their peers it's better in fact. When they have other questions about s*x mine came home and asked me. It was far easier for me to fill in things of a more personal nature and my children handled it very well.  I'd rather it be that way then to have them learn from other kids outside of school. Or worse yet know nothing at all.

Answer 5

The only kind of s*x education in school that is funded by the federal government is abstinence only programs. Meaning they do go over s*x education, but their preference is too teach around the idea of abstaining from it. So, schools aren't able to teach about birth control, using condoms, and how to be safe, etc....It's left up to the parents and it's been proven that abstinence only programs do not work.

Answer 6

I would most certainly not be offended.  I wish they would keep doing it (s*x ed has become significantly minimized).  I remember watching two videos in s*x ed that made me never want to touch another human being, much less a boy.  One was a childbirth video, shot for the line of sight of the doctor.  The other was a graphically shot video about the effects of STDs.  

I didn't want to have s*x ever after those things.  And now look at it, they don't teach this stuff anymore and teen pregnancy hasn't went down?  Wasn't that what taking the graphic nature out of s*x ed was all about doing?  Stopping kids from having s*x because their not exposed to it, right?  Wrong.

Thanks to our wonderful government at work once again, we can't teach them about safe s*x.  Not even abstinence.  This is the way it is in the schools where I live.  And the teen pregnancy rates more than double the adult ones.  In a county of less than 10K people.  

I would be more offended if they didn't teach it.

Answer 7

i'm in high school right now, and my school doesn't have that class. we learn about the body parts for about a week in health class and we're taught that abstinence is the only way to prevent pregnancy. if we're told about other forms of birth control, all that we learn is that they dont always learn. i learned nothing about s*x during that class.  

as a student i wouldn't mind learning about s*x from the school.  what they teach us is very boring and i need to learn about other forms of birth control, just to get me prepared.

Answer 8

I graduated in 1997 and from 6th grade on they taught how babies are made including proper names of body parts.  They went over birthcontrol options and protection.  They showed how to put the condom on (well using a banana) and allowed us to ask questions and they would give honest answers.  They talked about abortion and what was involved.  Showed videos of woman giving birth and talk all about sperm meeting the egg.  Talk about puberty and hormones.  They pretty much covered all they could and they had the s*x ed classes twice a year up to senior year.  Junior year everyone took turns taking how the fake baby doll that cried and everything just to let us know what having a screaming baby for a few nights felt.  

They still do that program here as I have cousins and neices in school right now taking the s*x ed classes.  They also go over STD's and how they can affect your life and have people come in that have been affected by STD's especially HIV/AIDS.

Answer 9

Its "abstinence only" s*x ed now. Kids are taught how bodies work and how pregnancy occurs, but not how to avoid pregnancy if they decide to become sexually active. Its stupid, and the teen birth rate is going up because of it.