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Originally Posted by PhoenixAzul
Man, I consider myself really lucky. I went through Pittsburgh Public Schools, and we had sex ed from 6th grade until 12th. Most of the time it was taught by a rep from Planned Parenthood, so we literally had every method of prevention taught to us, along with efficacy rates. And we were tested on it. And we had graphic illustrations of stds (oh yay). And the "Miracle of Life" video at least twice a year (once in bio, once in health) every year in high school. That has been literally SEARED into my brain.
If you didn't understand how babies got made, or how to prevent them, by the time you got out of high school, you had other issues to address. There was no way to escape these classes, literally no way.
And yet, I had more than one classmate with multiple children by graduation (and raised a huge stink about not being able to carry her babies to the stage for graduation (which she ended up not doing because she didn't pass...gym)).
Long story short: even the best sex ed programs have failures. Teenagers are still going to get pregnant, that's the truth, but man, give them all the information you can and keep giving it to them until they get it. Hell, the experience of having a Baby-Think-It-Over for a weekend made me never, ever, ever want to have a kid.
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My school was a pilot school district, and we also started at fifth grade, but only went through 11th. We had to insert a diaphragm and put a condom on (on dummies, of course) for a grade. The book list included
The Joy of Sex and
The Kama Sutra. Yes, positions were discussed. The only thing that wasn't is slang - to this day, someone will refer to something sexual and I'll have no idea what it is unless I hear it in clinical terms.
I graduated with over 700 people, and there were only 2 pregnancies in our class (at least, from what I heard). When taught and absorbed properly, knowledge is power.