All About McCain

[sleepyjeff]

Originally Posted by Betty

You had 9 WEEKS of sex ed? Wow. We had a 1/2 session I think twice - once in elementry and once in jr. high.

5th grade it was a half day;
7th grade it was 2 or 3 weeks
10th grade it was an entire term(although it wasn't, I must admit, just about sex itself, there was the whole miracle of birth stuff in there too)

Oddly enough, drivers ed was only 2 weeks......you would think that, seeing how for every teen who has their life destroyed by sex there are hundreds more who have it snuffed out by driving that the schools would concentrate their efforts a little more on that(if saving lives really is their primary motivation)

Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

While the message I got out of sex ed was, "Promiscuous sex is risky. It's really risky. My god it's risky. So risky that we're going to spend hours and hours explaining what you'd need to do to protect yourself. Look, here's some horrific pictures of what happens if you fail to protect yourself. If you have sex, no matter how hard you try to be safe, this will always be a risk."

What better promotion of abstinence can there be?

Well, my sex ed was right during the early stages of AIDS, different times and different schools. I am sure most people have different 1st hand accounts unless they were in the same class together(and even then...)