Sex-Ed in school?
 

Should our schools be teaching our children about sex or is it the parent's responsibility? Is it a waste of taxpayers money? Should be subject our children to other people's view/teaching of sex?

IMO, no. Should be left to parents.

I see that sex ed so far hasn't done a whole hell of a lot of good?

Heck, kids these days could be teaching the teachers about this subject. LOL

Ok, tawk amoungst yaselfs:)

should be left to sex-teachers, not parents... parents are stupid...

ask a mechanician to teach his daughter what is going on with her first periods... he will say "check the calendar in our toilets, you'll become like this in no long"... ok, not ALL the mechanicians are doing it, but i know a bunch who are.

a lot of narrow-minded parents are teaching moronish sexual behaviors to their kids... why do you think that the g-string is now so popular... parents are unable to understand the real things.

I don't know. I don't want anyone teaching my daughter how to use and do things when it comes to sex. Teaching about the menstral cycle and puberty is one thing but sex is a whole different ballgame.

I'm pretty sure G-strings are mostly do to Hollywoods lovely influence on the morals of the world. Then again, it's up to parents to say no to this stuff both in wearing and viewing. With all the advertising today, most girls already know the scoop about that anyway. We're not in the 50's anymore when everything was hush-hush.

What is a mechanician?

Gabby

but they are not... it's up to the parents to teach these things, but they don't, because they are lazy and stuborn... or there would be no "tease my butt, i'll touch your meaty..."

parents have to stop watching hollywood shows if it's hollywood which is teaching the kids how to dress...

sex-teachers in schools have a single target, teach the real things, not just bees and cabbage... they do it uniform across the class, so nobody feel pointed, and nobody can say stupid things to one and not the other... if a kid is teached by his parents with narrow minds, he will say narrow-minded things to others who will laugh at him... if everybody learn the same thing the same way, nobody will ever have to insult or laugh at others, because everybody knows the base of things the same way.

i don't say they have to teach the kamasutra, but basic things... human behavior is based on sexual behavior too... so if nobody teach anything to nobody, we're stuck

you both 2 will end up being 'Best Friends' :D

Yes they should be taught

Wrong :(
if we had been taught, we can teach... if we don't know then we may need help...
but it's a vicious cycle...

p.s. do I have to list all the possibilities/combinations?

Really?

Between 1991 and 2002, teen pregnancy rates dropped 28% due to sex education courses.

Teen abortion rates dropped 50% from their peak in 1988.

http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/2006/09/12/USTPstats.pdf

We now have Sarah Palin's 18 year old daughter going on the news circuit saying that Abstinence does not work. This is a program advocated by her parents and taught in her home and yet she became pregnant as a teen. She isn't advocating that teens give up sex because she feels that it is unrealistic. She is advocating that they put off pregnancy by doing things smart and educated. Kids need to be educated about this. Not every teen has a stay at home parent that they can talk to about these things. Many parents work long hours and multiple jobs. Its worse in poorer areas where teen pregnancy rates are higher. Education and allowing these kids to make the proper decisions is the only way.

History has shown that parents do not teach this properly. There are no parenting classes or licenses and this is one thing that people don't like talking about. Sex and Drugs are often glossed over by parents because they might get embarrassed talking about it. Until all parents start taking the future of their children seriously and talk about these things openly and often then it needs to be taught somewhere and that place is school.

If you're teaching your children about these things than that is good. You have a head start. You won't have to worry about them learning anything new in school and they are protected. They will have an open enough relationship to ask you to help with Birth Control when the time comes that they feel ready. However there are close to 100 million children in the United States. You can't teach them all and probably less than 10% will learn what they need to know in the home. They can learn in school, they can learn it on free porn sites on the Internet or they will learn it in their neighbor's bed. They will learn it somewhere.

Like Nex said parents are dumb, lazy and scared to talk to their children about this stuff. Also to top it off most parents don't make the time for their kids to have these type of conversions.

Do I think that the teachers should press their views on the children...NO. Do I think that they should be taught responsibility...YES.

They should know their options and the consequences of their actions.

Kids learn most stuff from the media and TV...that is no way to learn anything...

Let's send parents and children back to school... ;)

p.s. Salomonic solution Uh?