sex ed in schools
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rynneExpect much spam from me tonight. I'm leaving at 5:30 (*cries at the earliness*) tomorrow morning to go to Colorado until Friday, and I'm not going to have the internet, so I will write lots of posts that will hopefully generate many comments for me to read when I get back. *snicker* And let's just wait for them all to be a flop...
Anyway. Something I've been wondering awhile, and a question especially for the Brits.
What is sex education like in Britain? For all the HP fics that mention it, half of them have it given in school, in one of the upper years, and the other half have parents give their kids The Talk. Which is more correct?
For that matter, I have no idea what it's like anywhere outside of Nevada. I, for one, have never had The Talk with my parents, where they explained to me how babies are made (*snerk*), but that's because Nevada (or maybe just my county, I don't remember) has (or had, I'm not sure if it still does because I've outgrown it now) the SHARE (Sexuality, Health, And Responsibility Education) program, where everyone, unless their parents signed a note excusing them, from fourth to eighth grade, and whichever year they took Health in high school, had a week every year in which someone from the program came and explained things about sex. They talked about STDs, and usually had someone with AIDS come in and talk about it. I was in fifth grade, and therefore ten, when I learned about inserting tab A into slot B, and so on. My parents didn't need to have a Talk with me, because the school was doing it for them.
Is something like this common in schools? I've never lived anywhere other than Nevada, but what's meant by The Talk is pretty much universal, which leads me to think that it's common (or has been at some point), and I am confused about how many people actually do have a Talk with their parents. And what age they usually are. Some fics depict Harry & co as clueless about most of it until their mid-teens, and I just have to go O.O at that, because I learned much earlier (before I even started puberty--the fourth grade lesson, when I was nine, was basically about that, and about the changes that our bodies would be undergoing, and so on).
And well, yeah. I'm curious. And I realize Hogwarts isn't a normal British school, but the students there are people and will eventually get really horny and want to have sex, but I'm pretty sure they have to know something about things like STDs and contraceptions and what have you.
Now I'm just rambling. :p Expect more rambling on a different subject later. And dude, I really have to answer some comments...
Anyway. Something I've been wondering awhile, and a question especially for the Brits.
What is sex education like in Britain? For all the HP fics that mention it, half of them have it given in school, in one of the upper years, and the other half have parents give their kids The Talk. Which is more correct?
For that matter, I have no idea what it's like anywhere outside of Nevada. I, for one, have never had The Talk with my parents, where they explained to me how babies are made (*snerk*), but that's because Nevada (or maybe just my county, I don't remember) has (or had, I'm not sure if it still does because I've outgrown it now) the SHARE (Sexuality, Health, And Responsibility Education) program, where everyone, unless their parents signed a note excusing them, from fourth to eighth grade, and whichever year they took Health in high school, had a week every year in which someone from the program came and explained things about sex. They talked about STDs, and usually had someone with AIDS come in and talk about it. I was in fifth grade, and therefore ten, when I learned about inserting tab A into slot B, and so on. My parents didn't need to have a Talk with me, because the school was doing it for them.
Is something like this common in schools? I've never lived anywhere other than Nevada, but what's meant by The Talk is pretty much universal, which leads me to think that it's common (or has been at some point), and I am confused about how many people actually do have a Talk with their parents. And what age they usually are. Some fics depict Harry & co as clueless about most of it until their mid-teens, and I just have to go O.O at that, because I learned much earlier (before I even started puberty--the fourth grade lesson, when I was nine, was basically about that, and about the changes that our bodies would be undergoing, and so on).
And well, yeah. I'm curious. And I realize Hogwarts isn't a normal British school, but the students there are people and will eventually get really horny and want to have sex, but I'm pretty sure they have to know something about things like STDs and contraceptions and what have you.
Now I'm just rambling. :p Expect more rambling on a different subject later. And dude, I really have to answer some comments...
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Date: 2004-07-19 07:18 pm (UTC)Eh.
Anyway, check this out (http://www.livejournal.com/users/astra_argentea/42682.html). Thought you might like to see it! :D
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Date: 2004-07-19 09:19 pm (UTC)