I grew up in a fairly small, and in my opinion, overly-churched town 2 hours West of "the Cities". My first memory of any sort of sexual education was from when I was in the 3rd grade. All the boys got to have a second recess, while all of the girls were herded into the theatre to watch a movie about the female body. The only thing I remember specifically from the film was a scene of a mother making her daughter a pancake in the shape of a uterus, complete with two fallopian tubes and their accompanying ovaries. After giving each part a name and explaining it's various functions, they then proceeded to gobble the whole thing up. Weird.
Skip to 8th grade health class. This was the next and pretty much last time anything relating to sex was mentioned in my school. Had I not had any previous knowledge, I would have left the class at the end of the semester thinking that sex was the stuff of made-for-TV-movies, and it would either leave you pregnant with a child that would no doubt be the bane of the rest of your existance, or riddled with terminal diseases.
Being the youngest of a large family, and having siblings spaning every age from a brother who was 3 years older to a sister who was 13 when I was born, I pretty much knew everything there was to know about sex before the administration would see fit. So I would sit in class, make note of things they were leaving out or not explaining fully, and sort of laugh it off. I never stopped to think until now what the more sheltered kids in my class were thinking. It seemed to me that there was no where in my school that you could go to find real information about anything relating to sex. There was only Health class, where you were taught that remaining abstinent until marriage was the only way to have a healthy sexuality; or the ENABL (Education Now And Babies Later) club, which I admit I wasn't a member of. Having never gone to a meeting I can still safley guess that you wouldn't be able to find out much about contraceptives there, let alone sexuality.
Now as for the effect I feel this had on my fellow students...it obviously could have been better. The first time a girl got pregnant in my school I was in 6th grade, and so was she. After that it seemed like there was never a period when there wasn't someone pregnant. A few times there was a teenage mom-to-be in every grade at the high school. It just seemed like there was "something in the water" in our town...I mean, didn't they know about the options that were available to them? There is even a Planned Parenthood in our town. If they were lucky enough to "accidently" find out about such a place, and they were too shy or too embarassed or too something to make an appointment, don't you think they would have been less so if the possibility had been a topic of conversation in their sex ed. class, let alone even mentioned?
So I guess you can already assume my position on this topic. I believe that sex education should be completely dissected and presented from every angle to students. Everything from the obvious aspects of contraceptives and S.T.I.'s to homosexuality and gender issues. Maybe this is a little too much of a jump, or some of these topics seem irrelevant to younger students, but kids are developing and figuring out their sexuality, as well as acting on it, at a much younger age every day. To me, 4th grade is when kids should learn about their bodies and what they do in regards to sex. They should also learn about it together, and not be seperated by gender and be clueless as to what the opposite sex is all about. 6th grade seems like the ideal year to begin the more sexual education. Kids of that age seem old enough to listen to the information and actually learn something, as well as young enough to hopefully educate and prepare them before its "too late." Also, the chasm between grade school and jr. high/high school becomes glaringly clear during the summer before 7th grade. Kids should enter this new phase of their life with a full understanding of whats going on out there and whether or not they want to be involved.
Hillary, I'm also from a small, probably 'over-churched' town. I watched the same video where the mom pours the pancake batter into the shape of our organs. Hilarious. But, unfortunately that's what I think of when I remember my sex-ed. I really like what you guys are saying about starting sex ed earlier. I think it's really important, especially for kids whose parent's don't talk to them at home about it.
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Posted by: Allyson at July 7, 2005 03:16 PMMy roommate and I are looking for the video too! We've searched on several engines and can't find it.
She said she saw it in a northwest suburb of Chicago around 1990. We can't believe that it got around the whole nation like that. My roommate is scarred. She still thinks falopian tubes would go well with syrup!
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