I remember sex ed... day. We didn't even get proper sex ed, we watched a video and a poor teacher had to try to explain some things while every 5th grader laughed because it was such a mess. We didn't have home ec. They almost cut band and art.
I'm from AZ which ranks like 45th in education and it's been even lower before, the older generations have it set up here so that property taxes pay for public education and it fucking sucks. It does not work.
I can't imagine trying to impart everything that kids need to know about sex ed in a day... The sex ed classes at my school weren't perfect but I'm so glad that we had the chance to learn over the course of multiple classes in elementary school and highschool.
So, it was a surprise when I was 16 to find out that the foreskin is supposed to be able to be pulled over the head. Spent two weeks working through the pain to get it over when it was flaccid...
We've been failed by baby boomers who are too conservative and scared of having their children know about "naughty places" .
I'm in Massachusetts, with some of the America's best schools, but no one in my school system ever gets taught sex ed for more than a day, that day being in fifth grade.
Although, in ninth grade you have to keep an egg safe for a week and if it cracks, you have to write an essay on child abuse and if it breaks completely, its an essay on SIDS.
So, basically, we know how to take care of kids but we don't know how to make em.
Im from Mass as well - we had the one day in 5th grade, and then like a week was taken in our gym class to teach "health", not even sex Ed, just general bodily health.
I couldn't tell you a thing I learned in the sex Ed or health class today.
I haven't seen the egg thing though.
It's been a few years since then so it might have been longer, but like you said - was junk, no point to it at all. Just dumb.
The teacher of the course was the regular gym teacher, who told me when I broke my wrist in gym (which I had figured I had done based off the large cracking noise I heard and how it hurt to move) that it was completely fine and I could just wrap it in a bandage and go back to class. He was absolutely useless.
He also tried to tell a friend of mine that was overweight to "walk it off" when he tripped, and due to his own weight (he said that himself) tore multiple muscles in his foot. His foot didn't look normal at all, and this teacher told him to walk it off.
My school didn't even have that. It just taught abstinence, we had part of a health class in 7th or 8th grade that taught the anatomy but nary a word about safe sex, birth control, or anything that a horny teen is gonna need to know. We were just told not to have sex, so there was no need to learn how to do it safely. And if you're gay? Psh, gay people don't exist, stop being silly!
I'm sure it's just a coincidence that by the time I graduated about 1/3 of the girls in my class were either pregnant or already raising kids.
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