Yeah, when most people say "comprehensive sex ed" that's the level of stuff they mean. I'm always amused when the assumption is OMG TEACHING 6 YEAR OLDS SEX.

When I worked in child psych, the message we would give kids is that nobody should touch you where a bathing suit covers except for medical reasons. That seemed to be concrete enough for them. That said, I answered my kids' questions as they asked them, at a level they could understand at the age. I see no problem with the program they just presented.

I had Sex Ed in 5th grade but it was all about puberty, not about the actual act.

sidenote-

Doesn't Indonesia have a problem with westerners traveling there to have sex with children? I remember reading something like that in the news.

Google sex tourism.

I'm kind of surprised it isn't being taught to kindergarters already

Not gonna lie, I have a 2 yr old and it's crazy to think that any kind of sex, other than what the video portrayed, should/could be the topic of conversation in the 3 short yrs. But kids are FAST as hell so you gotta nip it in the bud however you can. If chastity belts are out then I guess this new fangled "talking/educating" will have to do.:p

I think it's great what they are trying to do and I think we could get away with it along the same lines here in a few random schools. They did say only a "handful of schools in the country have the program".

I agree with Dr. Phil...they're not teaching SEX ed, they're teaching HUMAN BODY ed.
I think this would be a great idea! But it would have to be closely monitored, I would think!!

I can't remember very well, but I think this is roughly how sex ed was for me, though mine was in 9th grade. If parents didn't sign, you went to the library (I don't remember anyone having to do that). However, we didn't really learn much. The subject matter was comprised of both lots of stuff we already knew or things we didn't understand. Let's face it--our teacher was a nun. No one was about to ask her for clarification.

This does seem to be just basic anatomy....however, if that's all it is, why is it "sex ed" instead of just part of the science curriculum?

Probably part of the overall school curriculum. K-3 gets anatomy and good-touch/bad-touch lessons, 4-something gets puberty/basics of what sex is and older gets into contraception, whatever morals the community has on sex, etc.

So basically odds are even though kindergarten is just getting this bit, it's taught as the same class, called sex-ed or not, throughout all the grades.