The Common Sense Chronicles blogs on a school sexual-education course where the instructor displays a startling lack of common sense:
The Common Sense Chronicles says:
The sex-ed class I took in Jr. High was centered on the reproductive parts of the male and female anatomy. It wasn't about sexual positions, technique, or toys. It was anatomical information. It was more of a science class than anything else. I didn't miss out by not having "extra" information. Believe me; by the end of class everyone understood what it took to make a baby...and what it was like to have one.
It is obvious to me that the times of changed!
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The New Mexico Health Department is standing behind a sex-education teacher in Santa Fe who encouraged ninth-graders to taste flavored condoms.
According to a report in the Santa Fe New Mexican, parent Lisa Gallegos said that when her 15-year-old daughter balked at putting a condom in her mouth, instructor Tony Escudero told her, "Come on, sweetie, have a little fun."
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Someone remind me again why it's the schools that refuse to teach sex-ed, or who teach abstinence, who are supposedly the biggest threat to teenagers today? This isn't sexual education; it's sexual play, and it's appalling that Mr. Escudero has been given the freedom to decide that this is what is "age-appropriate" for a ninth-grader.
Update: Then again, I suppose I should be grateful that the US's Puritan heritage keeps us from doing away with adult supervision in sex ed altogether. Only in the UK could a reporter for a major newspaper open a story with a straight face and the sentence, "Teenagers want to learn about sex from one another rather than from their teachers." (Thanks to the Rottweiler for the link.)
Posted by kswygert at July 23, 2004 03:37 PM