Around grades 9 and 10, I started thinking "Oh hell, not this again, I learned all this shit last year" when sex-ed started, but after hearing how craptacular or, in some cases, just plain non-existent, sex-ed is south of the border, I began appreciating our curriculum and what it taught me a hell of a lot more than I used to.
That was more or less my experience as well. Mind you, I still have plenty of criticisms regarding the glossing over of certain topics (particularly external female anatomy; most of our courses focused on internal anatomy, with teachers glossing over other details) or the odd teacher doing a crappy job with the class, but on the whole, CBE sex ed classes are fairly decent. One thing I really liked was that the boys and girls were never split into separate classes, even when we first started in elementary school, which seemed to actually discourage us from feeling awkward about discussing these topics in the same room as members of the opposite sex.
Also, anyone remember the sex-ed "Question Jar", aka the "Insult the Teacher Anonymously Jar"?
Your sex-ed classes sound just like mine.
Ah, the Question Jar. I remember that. In grade 7 the guy who sat in front of me and his friend thought it would be hilarious if they could get the teacher to read the question "What if you wake up and your penis is in your vagina?" Needless to say, he never read that question. Even at that age, I thought it was funny how childish they were. I had a few chuckles at their expense.
I love their originality, because it's not like they stole that idea from family guy or anything...
My sex ed classes were pathetic, the teacher just said the really basic shit, put on an educational video and we put condoms on dildos. One classmate pissed off another and took out her eye with cock
Your school used dildos? I've only heard of schools using bananas. This has lead to somewhat dubious stories about people putting condoms on bananas next to their bed to prevent pregnancy. I say "somewhat" because I know people that sexually and generally ignorant that they would do that.
In my school we had an optional one day, hour long lesson in 5th and 8th grade if I remember right. I didn't go to either but from what I heard it was the standard puberty fair for the 5th grade one, with boys and girls separated and given the usual lecture about body changes. I do remember my friend telling me that the guy who gave the talk to the boys did so in a manner trying to be "one of the guys" if you know what I'm trying to say. At one point the guy also apparently grabbed his crotch and started jumping around shouting "penis penis penis!"
Later on in 8th grade I was in health class, a one semester class, twice, because there wasn't anything else for me to take. The teacher was just one of the coaches, and he never actually taught. He just told us to read a chapter and answer the questions at the end of the chapter. This included the sex ed chapter. The whole class was boring as fuck and was just a time filler.
back in 10th grade we had an AIDS specific class done by a couple guest speakers. They did a good job actually tell the real facts, and had to deal with the stupid of the other kids there. I was sitting near the front/side of the room and I think I spent about as much time as he did correcting everyone's "misconceptions", albeit in a much less politely. With things like "it came from a gay guy butt fucking a monkey" and "only faggots get it" I'm sure I said, or at least prominently thought "you fucking idiots" with an urge to beat the stupid out of people.
I should probably also re-tell the story of the two girls at my school who got pregnant at the very beginning of their sophomore year. The dude who got both of these girls pregnant was a senior who was at one point supposedly involved in a "child sex ring" with his aunt and her friend "bribing" him and his friend with booze and pot in their freshman year of high school. Once he got them pregnant I heard he ran off and joined the army, but I can't confirm that. One of the girls, both of whom are incredibly fucking stupid, supposedly said "I won't let him wear condoms, I just make him pull out. I won't get pregnant." One girl's name is ironically "Chastity". Both girls where also the one's who said something to the effect of "Tupac was killed by the 'lumiaty* 'cause he was gonna tell people 'bout their evil plans."
*This is the exact way she said it, an is why this sticks out so much in my mind.
