Sex edUcation

Not to dwell on the subject but my sister is so insanely relevant to this class it is almost unreal.

Again I was talking to her not long after the class presentation on sex ed and I was still a little fired up about the whole thing and ideas of how to change and better the system were still flooding my brain. Then, Callie calls and tells me that she is so upset because now her school is implementing sex ed courses for all the students I think once a week - all because of her. I was so excited and started asking her questions about how long the class was, who was teaching it, what was being taught, all the things we discussed in class. Then I took a second and realized she wasn't calling to tell me how great it was but to tell me how frustrated she was with the situation. The class had been started because of her and her "situation".

Should this be something she should be offended by? Personally, I think she should be proud that she is setting a precedent in a place that can hopefully only benefit from a sexual education. I have a slight feeling that they will be taught an abstinence only program due to the conservative nature of the head of the school and the fact that they go to church every morning before school. I can only hope from what I have learned that this will be an honest and educational experience for these kids. I am sitting here debating whether some information is better than no information.

As long as it has the ability to teach the students ways to practice safe sex and the complications involved then I think there is a possibility of positive knowledge.

However, there needs to be a program in which there can be positive open discussion, honest and helpful advice, where students can talk about real issues and questions rather than what the educator is talking at them. I don't think it needs to be broken up into the strict and overlapping columns of abstinence only and comprehensive because those words make people cringe before they even know the truth behind them. Thus, creating a new kind of sex ed with a new name and some of the same ideas could be the beginning of a new and improved version of educating students about their almost inevitable sexual lives