Sex Education

^ Definitely. They shouldn't be calling an abstinece class 'sex ed.'

In elementary school, at about Grade 5 we had the Puberty Fair.
w00t for that.

In Grade 9 we had Planned Parenthood come talk to us a couple of times. In Grade 10, in Phys. Ed/Wellness we talked about sex and such.
Personally, I enjoyed when Planned Parenthood came. :shifty

I like going to a public school because we can talk protection and STDs and they're allowed to be straight up with us.
Our teacher told us, if we went to the school down the street - which is Catholic - we wouldn't be having this discussion. It would be no sex, not informing us how to be careful and such.

^ I understand cathloics (usually) don't use contraception.
But surely they understand that just because you're going to the school, doesn't mean you follow the religion! A lot of the time, parents send their child to the school because it's a good school or whatever. One of my friends from school is Muslim, and I go to an Anglican school.
Anyway, what I'm getting at is, whether or not they believe in contraception, they should really talk about it. Wouldn't they rather inform students about safe sex, then have them go out and come into contact with STD's and fall pregnant? I know not everyones like that. But I really think it should be taught everywhere...

The thing is, teenagers need to be taught about protection not have abstinence shoved down their throats.
Many teenagers are going to have sex, even if they are taught abstinence. They should be taught how to protect themselves and know of the risks.
Besides, many kids that go to Catholic or other religious schools don't even believe in the religion. Their parents send them there.

Sexual Education is a necessity in all governmented schools (I think...Haha.) and I think that its a good thing and helps a lot although its highly embarrassing.

Be I have the opposite problem; our school, students etc go into way too much detail. :lmfao

But its okay, I guess. Gives us something to argue, talk, chat about. Haha.

My school doesn't even like sex being insinuated.
Today for Phys Ed, we had a self defence teacher come in and she told us how to defend ourselves if someone was trying to rape us.
Our normal Phys Ed teacher told her it wasn't appropriate to be saying such things around us.
I'M IN YEAR 10!
It's really bad.
Thank god I'm leaving at the end of the year. :)

Synyster Gates:

I think that sex education is very limited in schools.
A school can sometimes dodge particular issues such as contraception, homosexuality, STD's and more.
I find that schools teach us all the scientific stuff and then teach abstinence.
I don't think it is enough.

Are other people's schools like mine?
What are your opinions?

Some schools just throw out some condom and don't say anything. At some schools kids are just to immmature. I just passed seventh grade and all the boys in my honors classes start laughing at one slightly sexual comment or that can be misconstrude as sexual. I think they should teach about different STDs, homosexuality,and abstinence but I think with parents are embarassed talking to there own kids about it how do you think they feel about they're kids learning from strangers. It's pretty much just for protection for the parents since most of them don't feel comfortable or don't know how to go about talking to there children about there sex life. I think it's idiotic and then they wonder why is my teenager daughter pregnant? Maybe you should have taught her about birth control,condoms, or even abstinence. If they are going to have sex at least give them the resources to prevent children or an STD.

You know, I think it's absolutely necessary.
I mean, you always hear parents moaning about how their kid got knocked up, but when it came to signing a sex education slip, they scoffed at the idea.
Let's face it: teenagers, and even kids are the biggest perverts these days.

We have sex ed. at my high school but the man who runs it is really religious so he only goes over the abstinace part thoroughly. So we have 15 girls pregnant, maybe more.

CardiacArrest:

We have sex ed. at my high school but the man who runs it is really religious so he only goes over the abstinace part thoroughly. So we have 15 girls pregnant, maybe more.

Fifteen girls? How big is your school?
That's wayy too many.

I don't think that can entirely be blamed on the school, but had better sex education been taught, the situation could be entirely different.
People never think it will happen to them.
Planned Parenthood makes you really think otherwise. :shifty

My school has awesome sex education classes. Well, pretty decent. The teacher's - mine at least - we're so good with us too.

^^^About 400 students, give or take a few.

That is a little ridiculous.
My school has nearly a thousand students and I only know of one pregnant girl.
I'm sure there are more or will be, but fifteen out of a small school. Yikes.

libbey crocodile.:

That is a little ridiculous.
My school has nearly a thousand students and I only know of one pregnant girl.

because...

libbey crocodile.:

My school has awesome sex education classes.

It really makes a difference when done correctly.

I strongly believe that a strong sex ed class is very important. Teenagers these days are going to have sex no matter what is said, so a so-called "sex ed class" that preaches abstinence-only is foolish and useless.

Teenagers need information to encourage them to make well-informed decisions, especially with all of the rumors and misinformation involving sex that circulates.

When Planned Parenthood came to my school they didn't sugarcoat anything, which is really important.
Sex is part of life and pretending it doesn't happen doesn't change that it does.
They passed around all different types of contraception and birth control and explained how they are all used.
That is very important, I believe. If you don't know what is all out there, how do you know that you can protect yourself better?

I go to an enormous public school, and when I had Health last year, the course our teacher taught us was abstinence only.
--rolls eyes--
I think that's just being ignorant. It's like saying "Hey, kids, don't run out into the street. Now, that's all we're going to tell you. We could tell you how to lessen the impact of getting hit by a car, but instead we're just going to tell you not to do it and leave it at that."
We had this little booklet with a bunch of scary statistics on STDs and pregnancy, and I swear, at the bottom of every page, there was a little blurb that said "The only safe sex is no sex!"
It really made me angry. I mean, obviously, teenagers are going to have sex. It's just a fact. And, yeah, maybe adults can't stop them from doing it, but they could at least educate us properly so we know what we're getting into if we do decide to do it. I want to slap whatever school board official approved that course.

At my primary school we never had any kind of sex education class though I do know now that from grades five to seven they actually have a really good personal health class which, well according to my younger sister, is pretty detailed. However, most people I know had some sort of sex ed in primary school.

I go to a catholic school and we're really, really well informed. We don't have a specific sex ed class though in grades eight and ten in science for an entire term you focus on reproduction and everything that it involves. In grade twelve, if you do biology, you spend a term looking at reproduction in even more details.

Our school obviously doesn't want us having sex though they know it's going to happen so we're provided all of the information needed to encourage safe sex. However, my biology teacher did refuse to talk about abortion last term though I'm not sure if that had to do with her personal beliefs or those of the schools.

We have about 800 to 900 girls at my school, since we're an all girls school, and I've never heard of a single girl being pregnant. Obviously they may be girls but generally I believe the sex education we're provided does actually help promote safe sex.

In Australia, at least in NSW, I'm pretty sure sex ed is compulsory in all schools. It's in the PDHPE curriculum.

I've never heard of a single person becoming pregnant at my school. Our sex ed is informative, it doesn't tell us not to do anything, but informs us so we can make our own choice. It tells us of the risks you're taking, and situations you might find yourself in to try and prepare us the best they can.

sex ed really should be taught more. not just abstinence because we all know what that is.
but other things like if you do this: heres the risks.
or sometimes if you get something like this, its because of this and this.
just not: dont have sex.
i know if i had more informative sex ed classes i would have never had sex.

oh whoops. and be more details about things. i know id freak me out enough to never do those things again. lol
not be like: this is sex. that goes there, etc. like explain what is actually happens, and will happen if its un-protected and say the person has some STD or something.