That is so amazingly cool. I don't know how other states handle it (and know some painfully ignorant people in Illinois), but in Detroit, Michigan, fifth graders (10 and 11-year-olds) are given an afternoon run down on the "changes they're going through." However, only kids whose parents signed the permission form were in on the discussion. A few were sent to the library instead. After that, I think the next time anything came up was in high school biology, and again, that involved permision forms.
Oddly enough, the best sex-ed class I was subjected to was the one held at my parents' church. Two days of mortified 11 to 13-year-old kids having everything they ever wanted to know (as well as an awful lot we didn't) about human anatomy, sex, contraception, pregnancy, diseases and the lot explained in great detail. We even had to prove we took notes.
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Date: 2004-01-22 05:17 pm (UTC)That is so amazingly cool. I don't know how other states handle it (and know some painfully ignorant people in Illinois), but in Detroit, Michigan, fifth graders (10 and 11-year-olds) are given an afternoon run down on the "changes they're going through." However, only kids whose parents signed the permission form were in on the discussion. A few were sent to the library instead. After that, I think the next time anything came up was in high school biology, and again, that involved permision forms.
Oddly enough, the best sex-ed class I was subjected to was the one held at my parents' church. Two days of mortified 11 to 13-year-old kids having everything they ever wanted to know (as well as an awful lot we didn't) about human anatomy, sex, contraception, pregnancy, diseases and the lot explained in great detail. We even had to prove we took notes.