Sex-Ed (slightly OT)

[Alicia/Sue Spinnet]

No: HPFGUIDX 442

Hello:

> Sex ed, in districts that teach it, is almost NEVER given to 
>children below sixth grade.  In the school district that I was 
>educated in and now currently work in, "health education" is 
>required in ninth grade.  For me it consisted of the athletic 
>director showing graphic pictures of STDs in their advanced stages, 
>mothering an egg for a semester, and writing budgets for mock 
>weddings.  I am not kidding.

Eighth grade health in my district: Bring out the teaching tool that 
I've affectionately nicknamed "The Box O' Birth Control".  Pass 
around room.  Hit boys who try to make balloons out of condoms.  Make 
class say word "abstinence" several times.  Give Sue Spinnet 
detention when she interchanges it with "fornication" and "coitus 
interruptus".  Show class "The Greg Louganis Story".

I still can't see how this relates to ninth grade health in my 
district: blow-up CPR dummies and made-for-USA movies that always 
seem to involve booze and Suzanne Somers.  (I am ashamed to share a 
name with that woman.)  
 
The way school districts treat sex nowadays is ridiculous.  The idea 
of waiting until junior high (when most students are already swimming 
through the Sea of Hormones) to treat it as an issue is absurd; by 
that age, most girls have already dealt with all those lovely little 
rites of passage and most boys have already developed a fixation on 
the bra strap of the girl who sits in front of them in Geography.  

> Ebony AKA AngieJ (whose mother gave her "the talk" when she was six 
> years old)

--Alicia/Sue "Trombonist From Hell" Spinnet (who was given "the talk" 
at the age of seven after her nine-year-old best friend Matt 
accidentally stumbled upon his brother's stack of old Playboys)