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Lack Of Sex Education A Ticking Time Bomb, Councils Warn
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http:// www.bbc .co.uk/ news/ed ucation -389678 56
I always thought that sex education WAS compulsory in schools, but apparently that isn't the case.
I can remember the sex education that I received, at the tender age of 13 in the 1966. It was done by the local GP, for us boys and his sister, who he shared the practise with, did the girls. I am unsure who was more embarrassed....us boys or him !
I always thought that sex education WAS compulsory in schools, but apparently that isn't the case.
I can remember the sex education that I received, at the tender age of 13 in the 1966. It was done by the local GP, for us boys and his sister, who he shared the practise with, did the girls. I am unsure who was more embarrassed....us boys or him !
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.I always thought it was compulsory for schools to provide it, but parents had the option of removing their children from the classes. I'd hate to be the odd one out being taken away.
For some reason it was down to the PE teachers to tell us about periods, while the biology teachers taught us the 'mechanics' of it all. I also vaguely remember a condom on a banana and dire warnings of AIDS.
For some reason it was down to the PE teachers to tell us about periods, while the biology teachers taught us the 'mechanics' of it all. I also vaguely remember a condom on a banana and dire warnings of AIDS.
We had it in primary school via a program called living and growing and then again at high school with the biology teacher and cucumbers and condoms!!
It definitely needs to be taught in schools especially as girls can get pregnant at younger ages now.
But also from a health point of view the dangers of sleeping around and what is correct and not correct use of sex.
It definitely needs to be taught in schools especially as girls can get pregnant at younger ages now.
But also from a health point of view the dangers of sleeping around and what is correct and not correct use of sex.
Its interesting that according to the link, these new Academy Schools don't have to provide SE if they don't want to. Neither do they have to follow the National Curriculum if they don't want to either !
We don't have Academies here in Wales, but it seems a very rum do when 78,066 new diagnoses of sexually transmitted infections were seen in 2015 in England, in some as young as 15.
Surely every child should receive SE as a matter of course.
We don't have Academies here in Wales, but it seems a very rum do when 78,066 new diagnoses of sexually transmitted infections were seen in 2015 in England, in some as young as 15.
Surely every child should receive SE as a matter of course.
Teaching children about their bodies, how they work,what different parts are called and having a healthy respect for their bodies and keeping safe is something that should ideally be done at home.
It should be as natural as teaching them to brush their teeth.
School may have a role to play but parents have a greater one.
It should be as natural as teaching them to brush their teeth.
School may have a role to play but parents have a greater one.
Our sex education at school was very patchy. Explained about sperm and eggs but didn't say how they met.
I asked the question how and where did they meet, I got sent to the headmistress for being rude. This was in the mid fifties when I was about 12.
Mum attempted to tell me about periods , but couldn't tell me where I would bleed from. I was constantly checking everywhere, arms, body legs for blood spurting out. Thank heavens I asked a friend who filled me in properly.
I asked the question how and where did they meet, I got sent to the headmistress for being rude. This was in the mid fifties when I was about 12.
Mum attempted to tell me about periods , but couldn't tell me where I would bleed from. I was constantly checking everywhere, arms, body legs for blood spurting out. Thank heavens I asked a friend who filled me in properly.
Well, when I was at school a nurse came and showed a very scratchy film about periods. Then the poor, embarrassed, biology master had to explain the mechanics with animals and refer to humans being the same.
I was completely taken aback when (doing my homework at the kitchen table) I realised that my knickers were wet. I went to ask Mum and she had a panic and had to run across the Green to a friend in order to borrow some pads. Hilarious in retrospect and, to be honest, it didn't traumatise me or anything.
I discovered that (when Supply Teaching) I was often thrown into the situation where I copped a Sex Ed. lesson and ended up in a class watching a video of the birth of a baby or, worse, with a box of prophylactics trying to explain how to use them to a bunch of Muslim boys - and that Mars bar wrappers simply would not 'do'. I'd never met any of these kids before.
Surely it is better now?
I was completely taken aback when (doing my homework at the kitchen table) I realised that my knickers were wet. I went to ask Mum and she had a panic and had to run across the Green to a friend in order to borrow some pads. Hilarious in retrospect and, to be honest, it didn't traumatise me or anything.
I discovered that (when Supply Teaching) I was often thrown into the situation where I copped a Sex Ed. lesson and ended up in a class watching a video of the birth of a baby or, worse, with a box of prophylactics trying to explain how to use them to a bunch of Muslim boys - and that Mars bar wrappers simply would not 'do'. I'd never met any of these kids before.
Surely it is better now?
You cannot rely on parents to provide sex education. My own mother was a nurse and told me nothing. Not a word. When I started bleeding I was distraught, thinking I was dying. She still told me nothing. Just provided the goods I needed. Leaving children in ignorance is to leave them open to predators. It goes like this "Oh, no sweetie, this isn't sex, or your parents would have told you about it, wouldn't they ?"
I'm sure most of us would agree that it *should* be down to the parents -- but the whole point of a (compulsory) Sex Ed at school is in case this doesn't happen, or if it does happens in a way that's even more damaging.
The ideal approach is for Schools and parents to work together -- and certainly isn't for either of these to wait for the other lot to get around to it.
The ideal approach is for Schools and parents to work together -- and certainly isn't for either of these to wait for the other lot to get around to it.
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