Do ya approve "Sex Education" in schools?

[SimplyMe]

I was discussing this issue with a few parents at work, but alot of them were against "Sex Ed" in schools...What do ya think of it?

Let me ask ya the questions they asked me:
When should sex education start?
What skills should sex education develop?
What is taught in sex education?
What are the aims of sex education?
Is it ethical for sex education be taught in schools?

My personal opinion is that "Sex Ed" should be taught in schools in coordination with religion, does that make any sense?

[ayisha]

I was discussing this issue with a few parents at work, but alot of them were against "Sex Ed" in schools...What do ya think of it?

Let me ask ya the questions they asked me:
When should sex education start?
What skills should sex education develop?
What is taught in sex education?
What are the aims of sex education?
Is it ethical for sex education be taught in schools?

My personal opinion is that "Sex Ed" should be taught in schools in coordination with religion, does that make any sense?

I think sex education should be taught in schools and as far as I know it is here in UK. Sadly when I was at school, about 100 years ago we had Grammar Stream (top 2 classes) and we didnt get any sex ed, unless you count English Lit class where we managed to ask questions to the teacher (who was also Head of School) and got the whole Eng Lit class as sex ed Dont remember much Eng Lit though

As for your specific questions SimplyMe, I dunno what they should teach How not to be a teenage mum maybe would be good here

[nour]

I do approve the idea of sexual education, just not at schools, it just wont be organized

I am trying to launch a campaign to aware the public about sexual education and I really need your help

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[shirley]

Yes it should be taught in schools from the age of ten I think.
Children should be given lots of opportunities to discuss any issues that arise.

[raymon]

I do approve sex education at primary age, but in my opinion sometimes politicians don't know where to stop.

Take this story dated April 21st:
Ontario unveils contentious revamp of sex education curriculum
Calgary Herlard
TORONTO — Ontario's Ministry of Education has unveiled a new sexual education curriculum that will include talk of masturbation, vaginal lubrication and anal intercourse.

[RoughShod]

One would think that sexual education would be the responsibility of the parents?

Maybe the parents should be schooled after primary education on how to inform their own children their children's origins. Maybe they may learn something themselves if they were part of such a newly started program.(afterwards their children would not need to be schooled in that way).

Why have educators divide their time from imparting knowledge to children to do what the childrens parents should do?

It seems to me that sex is always a subject that seems to be under the covers, as if removing the cover will find a fully erect penis penetrating a lush vagina. Guess what, that is what those young children will find happening to themselves as their hormones rage.

How would a parent tell them that their bodies were born to reproduce ?

Well, I would certainly start of by saying that ....Guess what, you have gone past thinking sweets are great and boys aren't, ..................well, I need to attend a school to continue on this subject.

I think parents need to be educated on how to explain the meaning of life to their offspring.

[poppy]

One would think that sexual education would be the responsibility of the parents?

Maybe the parents should be schooled after primary education on how to inform their own children their children's origins. Maybe they may learn something themselves if they were part of such a newly started program.(afterwards their children would not need to be schooled in that way).

Why have educators divide their time from imparting knowledge to children to do what the childrens parents should do?

I think parents need to be educated on how to explain the meaning of life to their offspring.

When I read this, I have to agree! That it seems the logical thing for a parent to do! As you point out it's not always an easy thing for them to do either. I speak from experience, not as an adult parent. Which I am but as the child I once was and who never got told. By a parent or in school.

Yet, I'd have preferred to have been informed in the privacy of home, rather than at school. But this is merely my own personal experience. As you may imagine something I feel strongly about too, which is why I replied.

[moll]

One would think that sexual education would be the responsibility of the parents

Don't be silly, Roughshod......it's the responsibilty of schools and teachers, like everything else and then when it all goes wrong, the teachers are the ones to blame...

Please do not get me started

[ruby slippers]

I'm definitely on the side of parents being the ones to teach children about sex - not teachers!

[RoughShod]

Hey there Poppy, I was missing that earthy presence of yours around here, wanna smoke a joint? hehe.

The more I thought about any type of sex education at all the more I thought about what it would entail. I had got ahold of a sex education book in my 'teens' from my sister who had got it from her friend who had been given it by her father who was a preacher of a church that my dad attended. For some reason my dad raided my school suitcase ( I think a tip off from my sister who seemed to like games like that) , but I knew where it had come from and duly told my dad there was nothing wrong with it. That it was necessary to know what was going on with my body and learn how to control it and handle the opposite sex with some form of knowledge. My dad confiscated the book from me and told me I would know what to do when the time came to do it, and if I ever wanted to know anything, I could discuss it with him. This from a man who never warned I would have wet dreams, this from a man whose wife most probably reported if I had them because she made up my bed. This from a man who I called into the bathroom once to show how my *beep* reacted when I touched it in a certain way...he told me not to do that and dissappeared without any explanation.

I agree with him on one point, when the time comes to do IT, one will know how, but I would have thought not how to do, but when to do it. And then sex education takes on a different twist...all adolescents will do it sooner or later, they need to know when to do it, they need to be taught to respect not only their own bodies and that of their peers, but also have a moral understanding that their bodies are not only created for procreation, but for the betterment of society in general.

There has always been a nagging issue in my mind about sexuality of any kind since I was young. When I was told at the age of 12 or so by a friend of mine how human kind actually procreated I was shocked and felt that it was just a decadent self absorbed way produced by nature to contridict what I believed at the time...that one prayed for ones children and they just arrived if ones family was blessed by God.

To this day I still want to fight sexuality of any kind and think it is lower than what I believe truly is better,that we have a calling to be more than our nature and to overcome it because it is secondary to the spirit of humanity. Yet my very humanity enslaves me to the calling of nature.

I would love to see that kind of sex education being taught anywhere, where a viable balance can be gained between virtue and raw needs.Where raw need can be placed second priority in favour of virtue.

[poppy]

Hey there Poppy, I was missing that earthy presence of yours around here, wanna smoke a joint? hehe.

The more I thought about any type of sex education at all the more I thought about what it would entail. I had got ahold of a sex education book in my 'teens' from my sister who had got it from her friend who had been given it by her father who was a preacher of a church that my dad attended. For some reason my dad raided my school suitcase ( I think a tip off from my sister who seemed to like games like that) , but I knew where it had come from and duly told my dad there was nothing wrong with it. That it was necessary to know what was going on with my body and learn how to control it and handle the opposite sex with some form of knowledge. My dad confiscated the book from me and told me I would know what to do when the time came to do it, and if I ever wanted to know anything, I could discuss it with him. This from a man who never warned I would have wet dreams, this from a man whose wife most probably reported if I had them because she made up my bed. This from a man who I called into the bathroom once to show how my *beep* reacted when I touched it in a certain way...he told me not to do that and dissappeared without any explanation.

I agree with him on one point, when the time comes to do IT, one will know how, but I would have thought not how to do, but when to do it. And then sex education takes on a different twist...all adolescents will do it sooner or later, they need to know when to do it, they need to be taught to respect not only their own bodies and that of their peers, but also have a moral understanding that their bodies are not only created for procreation, but for the betterment of society in general.

There has always been a nagging issue in my mind about sexuality of any kind since I was young. When I was told at the age of 12 or so by a friend of mine how human kind actually procreated I was shocked and felt that it was just a decadent self absorbed way produced by nature to contridict what I believed at the time...that one prayed for ones children and they just arrived if ones family was blessed by God.

To this day I still want to fight sexuality of any kind and think it is lower than what I believe truly is better,that we have a calling to be more than our nature and to overcome it because it is secondary to the spirit of humanity. Yet my very humanity enslaves me to the calling of nature.

I would love to see that kind of sex education being taught anywhere, where a viable balance can be gained between virtue and raw needs.Where raw need can be placed second priority in favour of virtue.

Hello RoughShod, how did you guess I am a Taurean? Lol. Ha! Ha! I think the last time that I smoked (or even drank) anything and that includes a cigarette, was well over 20 years ago! I’m fit now and instead of adhering to the Western ideals of enjoyment through self destruction. I exercise and dance instead!


I’m also doing my Master’s with a UK University online this time round, not even my decision! I was persuaded by an Academic Advisor, who perused my resume. So getting stoned is out of the question believe me.
Perhaps, your Father was of the same generation as my Mother (God rest her soul) who I suspect was too embarrassed to discuss such matters.


No RoughShod sexuality should by rights be a beautiful, yet sacred act in the sanctity of marriage. This is what I believe anyway. It is something that should not be taken lightly but respected. With a person with whom you choose to spend the rest of your life with. Anything lesser than that has a demeaning effect upon this act. Diminishes it to something base, animalistic and therefore meaningless.


Sadly, in what I now consider to be my ex culture. Single – parenthood is regarded by the government as an epidemic. This is not just because of a lack of sex education. But, reflects upon the very fabric of the cultural values itself. There is poverty and there are sub – cultures within that society. Who have a different set of values, with which to instil their growing children. Such as how clever it is to live outside of the law or play truant from school. It is mostly these children who lose their innocence before their time and end up as parents at much too young an age. The blame for this lies with societal values and law itself.


Job opportunity, lack of youth training, dumbing down of education, a nanny welfare state and mass poverty due to a corrupt and greedy government.... Recently changed, but probably won’t improve things much! On the positive side, gosh! I ‘m glad I’m no longer there!


Of course sex education is crucial, but then so is protecting the innocence of the young for as long as possible. So a healthy balance in society must be present before an adolescents’ health is endangered and they become parents before they are mature and can be responsible enough to handle this.

[moll]

I’m fit now and instead of adhering to the Western ideals of enjoyment through self destruction. I exercise and dance instead! .

As a westerner, I find that an insulting and stupid generalisation.

[RoughShod]

Moll, quite honestly you discard everything else Poppy said to defend some failed system because you happen to be a part of it. Exercise and dance is actually very healthy can you believe? And maybe she was wrong to say it is not part of western culture, but you most probably vindicated her by attacking her. If only you had done it with a song and dance...but no, you did it sedentary from your typing finger.

[moll]

If only you had done it with a song and dance...but no, you did it sedentary from your typing finger.

Oh by yon bonnie banks
And by yon bonnie braes
Where the sun shines bright
On Loch Loooooomond

Happy now?

[RoughShod]

No...I want to see you undress(I will try not to puke at the sight). I want you to demonstrate physically how you feel emotionally at a physically active level with a lover . I want you as a woman to demonstrate to a class full of hormone enraged pupils how they should practice the art of sex.