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Firstly, let me make something abundantly clear from my last post. I still think that sex education is a vital thing for everybody. Learning the "ground rules" of sex and safe sex is extremely important and can be a potentially life altering aspect of life that should not be taken lightly. Between pregnancy, sexually transmitted infections, and statutory rape, there are many risks that are easier to fall into than one might think. Nevertheless, I do believe that much of our time in these so-called "sex ed" classes is wasted; so much so that most students completely check out during that entire period of the day for most of the semester.
Let me revise my suggestion of half hour seminars for the entire school and suggest perhaps less frequent and much smaller classes that really resonate with students (resonate being the key word here). Forget all those student old sex ed movies or having some older person lecture us about responsibility. Let the students run the f...read more
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