Is there no sex ed anymore or something?

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Deidra

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They do have it, but earlier. I even started being taught in 5th grade and I was at a private school at the time.

Most of my friends were taught in 8th grade.

It could be more useful to do it once a year, an assembly on it per grade or something.
 
Why are teenagers so uneducated about sex these days? I know I'm not the only one who sees all the ridiculous "am i pregnant" and other really simple sex questions coming from sexually active teens. Now I won't get on some high horse and tell teens not to have sex, I had sex myself at 14. I'm just wondering in sex ed was canceled or what b/c when I was at that age I knew how babies were made, the whole male and female anatomy, puberty, STDs I learned about it all. Do they not teach it to teens anymore?
wow, starry I never knew that it wasn't mandatory anymore
that would probably explain all the teen pregnancies too
I know if someone told me to "just don't do it" when I was 14 I wouldn't have listened, you know teenagers always think they know everything LOL
Yeah I had sex ed in 8th grade too
sure we laughed at the pictures and words but IDK I at least learned it I mean it's either stay ignorant and deal with consequences or be educated and have safe sex
 
yes in middle school they start teaching...the thing is the questions that get asked a lot of times get rejected cause a parent finds out and then they start thinking that sex ed is a "how to" class...the best place for a teenager to learn about sex is at home...my mother did not tell me anything..and now i am 27, almost divorced i was a virgin when i married on my own accord and all of it was so horrible...so now as an adult i have to figure out about it myself..my husband sexually abused me so in a way i still have no clue about it...talk about it at home is best
 
No, its still there. I just had it last year in 9th grade. Most people didn't listen or laughed at everything. They didn't sit there and tell us not to have sex for two weeks though. No, they did tell us about STD's and blah blah blah. I had to do a power point on Herpes and tell it to the class, yeah, that was fun. I see what you mean though. The ridiculous questions on here like "I'm not on birth control and he didn't use a condom, could i maybe be pregnant" Its like common sense!
 
Most schools these days don't teach much about sex ed because they don't want to offend people. Some people don't want their kids to learn that at school. I just wonder why they don't teach them at home. It's like not teaching them to swim because you're afraid they'll drown. I saw a question on here one day in which a fifteen year old wanted to know if his girlfriend was pregnant because they had cyber sex(while in different states). That really worried me.
 
i remember in grade 5 they started teaching me that stuff

I'm in grade 8 now..
anyway,
Yeah, they still teach you that stuff....
 
they do, but kids now adays pay no attention. they would rather be having sex than learning about it i guess, and i completely agree with you! its ridiculous!
 
Most schools these days don't teach much about sex ed because they don't want to offend people. Some people don't want their kids to learn that at school. I just wonder why they don't teach them at home. It's like not teaching them to swim because you're afraid they'll drown. I saw a question on here one day in which a fifteen year old wanted to know if his girlfriend was pregnant because they had cyber sex(while in different states). That really worried me.
 
of course they do. But its too much in the biological sense to grasp the teens of this age.
 
Yes, they do, but unfortunately the trend is to stick with 'abstinence only' education. Abstinence only sometimes gets to simple, as in not even talking to the students about the consequences of having sex.

As a parent I still believe it is up to me to teach my children what I want them to know. But I ended up becoming a grandma to my 19 year old's baby. We had countless talks about using condoms, I even bought them for him. But, and this is another important point, teenagers feel invincible, nothing out there can hurt them. All the bad stuff happens only to other people.
It's simply a part of being a teenager to think and feel that way, and can not be overcome by anything.
So until we all recognize that, there is going to be a long hard road of teen pregnancies, teen STD's and and other complications ahead of us.
 
I am very well informed and I am no 20.
While in high school I received the most pathetic sexual education in grade 9 gym class.
So to answer your question in catholic high schools at least sexual education takes the back burner to teachers preaching abstinence!
In addition through my experience teenagers will not learn these things until they take it upon themselves to learn.....which, lets face it....is not likely to happen!
 
In my lovely state of Alabama, they do teach sex ed. However, they teach abstinence only. They say don't have sex. It causes relationship problems and babies and diseases. But they don't say if you do choose to have sex, be protected by using condoms. They don't teach the many different ways you can protect yourself, or what happens when you do have sex. They only teach don't do it. Sex ed isn't required, either. I never took it. I learned things on my own (and never got pregnant as a teenager - the abstinence thing worked for me). In health class (which is required) they briefly mention reproductive systems, but that gets more snickers about diagrams and definitions than real true advice on what to do to protect yourself
 
I think we can expand this to encompass all facets of education, not just sex ed. Thanks to high speed Internet connections, Wikipedia, and Google, kids have no inherent reason to learn. The attitude seems to be "Why bother studying and committing all this knowledge to memory if you can just look it up on the Internet if you're curious?" Our culture has become one of instant gratification, zero patience, and a general lack of anything resembling common sense.

This leads to a generation of kids possessed of a collective stupidity the likes of which I have never before seen. It's really quite infuriating.
 
we had sex education in year 9, but because we found it funny as the books were so graphic the teacher refused to teach it us.
my sex education has come from the family planning clinic that gives out free contraception, STD tests, and advice.

schools are sh1t these days.
 
Haven't you heard? These days, American teens just get taught not to do it until they're married. :-/

It's better in some other parts of the world, though. Most European teens get educated a lot better than than.
 
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