Well, by high school half the people had already had sex. Within the newer generation, seriously, who knows >_> And I mean I dunno about anyone else but by the time I was out of Jr. High, I was well aware of those STDs, and protection stuff so any more education was a repeat pretty much {I can't admit they taught us from the books of Sex Ed 101 but still}. Here, we are required to take a course for a sem. called CALM {career and life management} and a part of that course spends a really detailed explanation, and I was right, it was just a repeat of what I knew but with guest speakers from health clinics and stuff cuz I took it in summer school. It's not an everyday course if you took it within school days. But after that, no more health / sex ed. Oh my parents never ever talked about sex with me. My mom didn't even mention anything about it. My dad just sign sex ed consent forms in jr. high asking whether I can take it. There are some people who'd rather teach their own kids though but isn't that just..well..awkward? Ahah well all families are different. Many of them put them into school health courses anyways.
We had our first sex ed class at primary school when I was about 10. Just the basic stuff about pregnancy, periods, erections and stuff. I remember one person asked what masturbation was though . Then we had nothing else until Year 10 in high school when we were all 15 and most of us had already had sex so really this was a complete waste. They mainly talked about STDs from what I can remember. Yummy.. And my friend had to put two fingers together so that I could put a condom on over them. Very realistic, because a hard penis is just like two fingers (we all know fingers are no substitute). Anyway, I would say it needs to be done in depth at around 12/13. I'm not saying that that's when most kids start having sex, I'm saying htat hopefully you should catch the majority of them before they do, and surely that's the whole point of it?
Lol, my parents will ALWAYS try to sidestep this topic. Like, completely xD It's funny watching them try sometimes. They assume that I know everything there is to know, and that's perfectly all right with me >.>
But the fact that your parents are sidestepping is exactly why they should teach it in school.. They are assuming you know it all, but how can they know for sure? they will if they know you get taught at school.
I think most kids would just scoff at the idea of it but when it comes down to it, there'd actually be people who benefit from it though I must say if people really wanted to get high then there is always bound to be problems arising from the midst of it all.
In France we don't really have this sort of class. We only have a nurse that comes for 30 min in middle school and explains we have to use condoms and watch for illnesses. that's it. I find it pretty ridiculous, but not as much as the food pyramid they teach you every year in the US and when you go to the cafeteria you eat fries and hamburgers and pizza. In France we have real healthy food at the school cafeteria. I say all this because I lived 4 years in the US
Honestly, it has only a sliver of an effect on me. Of course, we have no choice other than to pay a little attention, 'cause we had these worksheets you were forced to do. If you didn't do them, you fail and you re-take the class untill you pass, and you can't graduate without the health credit. But, it is a good thing too - since not all parents have the 'talk' with their blossoming children. Mine didn't, for example. c:
ah...yes, one plus to living in france, lol. food here is so danm un-healthy, but they don't serve any healthy foods at all... they say just make a salad, but ven the salads are like, crap... so unhealthy, plus they have no low cal dressings, which make the salad even worse... Its a major problem... along with the fact that they change 3.50 for crap i could get at mc d's for 2, lol. on the sex ed thing, i was though in 5th alittle, then in middle, and in 9th grade of high, but other then that, nothing... I fell like its a good idea, but it really fails... most of what i know came from it, but by the time you get to high school, ya pretty much know everything there is to know. I fell like you couldn't ask questions freely though... its like, your around your friends, and it just seems akward, and thats a problem... i still think it should be thought, cause really, its not something parents and kids are confortable talking about together...
Mum just got back from Germany a few nights ago and of course she has to start going on about how everything is better there than over here (USA) the food portions the quality of the food etc Anyway, spending sex ed. with your classmates IS THE MOST AWKWARD thing that you could do with them. And then asking questions in front of them is even worse...because kids are mean no matter what. Going over it again in bio class in high school it just seems a whole lot funnier because we already know the information and we're used to it. The teacher liked to emphasize words too which made people suffocate from laughing so hard.
yeah and another thing that shocked me when I was living in the US. A modeling agency came to our school (I was in 5th grade) and showed us how to put makeup on (we looked like sl**s after they did makeup on us), how to do our hair and to recruit new models. Of course, we had to pay a fortune in order to even get a few fotos done by a reaaaaal serious fotograph. In France this is totaly illegal and we would never push little girls to act like grownups and put makeup on. Just let the kids grow up naturally. (Sorry for the above post it got a little buggy here)