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This is mainly a response to the first post. Some of what I am saying here has been said by others but I feel the need to repeat it. Note: I will put ages in brackets since many of you seem to be from outside Scotland and so wont be used to the education ages and equivelents)
I am currently in 6th year in Secondary school (17 years old and 6th year is the last possible year of original schooling) and to be honest I thikn there should be a massive overhaul in how children are taught sex education and when they are taught it.
We started learning about sex education in Primary 7 (about 11-12 year olds) and for many of us, this started too late considering that many of us had already hit puberty and were told nothing of it. We were getting taught about how to deal with the beginings puberty after we had started it. Now what use is that to a child?
In 1st and 2nd year in Secondary (12-14 year olds) we went further into the biology of the organs and were told about the human reproductive cycle but it was implied to us that the genitals only had to make contact in order for men and women to create children.
From about 3rd to 5th year (14-17 year olds) we were taught about relationships (well not really, just how to say no when being pressured for sex), STD's (for those who didn't say no I guess) and contraceptives.
Truthfully, more was learned about sex education from the "chinese whispers" in the school playground than what we were taught in school. The Scottish system doesn't even teach about how to raise children and how to deal with them (there are good points about this and some negative points to this so I wont go too much into it here)
So the question you need to ask is, would you rather your child learn sex education properly in school where they will be taught facts or would you rather they base their entire sexual knowladge on what they are taught in the playground? Half of which is urban myths and blatant lies from the older children. Currently, children are basing at least 2/3rds of what they know sexually on what they hear in the playground. It shouldn't be like this because sexual "chinese whispers" is a vey dangerous thing that leads to pregnncy and STD's
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