Sex-ed survey given to 7th Graders

[bad rider]

So this came up in news.
Yesterday, The Georgetown Dish's Beth Solomon reported on the aftermath of a sexual education survey distributed to 7th grade boys and girls at Georgetown's Hardy Middle School. Some Hardy 7th graders who took the survey last Tuesday, Solomon reports, were "disturbed," "bewildered," and "confused" by its contents; one reportedly "hyperventilated." Solomon went on to report that Hardy parents were "outraged" and "practically in tears" over the "inappropriate" and "graphic" survey of their children.

It's unclear how many families Solomon contacted for this story; all complained anonymously. But last Tuesday is hardly the first time that local 7th graders have been confronted with information about sex. The "sex test," as Solomon calls it, is an initial survey conducted as a part of Metro TeenAIDS' "Making Proud Choices!" sexual education curriculum. The curriculum is described as a "series of classes that are designed to help students avoid HIV transmission, unplanned pregnancy, alcohol, and illegal drug use," and it has been administered to students in D.C. Public Schools for seven years running.


Thats the first few paragraphs the rest is [link=http://www.tbd.com/blogs/amanda-hess/2010/10/hardy-middle-school-sex-survey-metro-teenaids-responds-3012.html]
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Those kids must have had an interesting day.

Edit:

"DCPS acknowledged that the standard "opt-out" letter was mistakenly sent home to parents on the same day students took the survey, and is planning a community discussion on the issue this Friday.

But DCPS also underscored the need for sexual education surveys like this one: "In 2008, nearly 7 percent of all District teenagers were diagnosed with Chlamydia, and District adolescents account for half of all Chlamydia and Gonorrhea cases in DC," DCPS said in the statement. "The 'pre-test' Hardy students were given was not a test at all, but an assessment used to determine the students? baseline knowledge and to responsibly assure that students get all of the information and skills they need to protect themselves."

http://www.tbd.com/blogs/amanda-hess/2010/10/hardy-middle-school-sex-survey-dcps-responds-with-chlamydia-statistics-3033.html

 

[Axolotl]

For the benefit of those living outside the US. How old is a 7th grader?

 

[CitySquirrel]

For the benefit of those living outside the US. How old is a 7th grader?

I was 13 in seventh grade. Some of my classmates were 12.

 

[bad rider]

For the benefit of those living outside the US. How old is a 7th grader?

12-13, youngest person to take this was just eleven years old though. (I also outside the U.S)

 

[Th37thTrump3t]

For the benefit of those living outside the US. How old is a 7th grader?

12-13 years old

 

[Matt_LRR]

For the benefit of those living outside the US. How old is a 7th grader?

between 11 and 13.

This outrage is totally moronic, by the way.

The questions on the survey that are drawing concern were:

"How certain are you that you could name all four bodily fluids capable of transmitting the HIV virus"

and

"How certain are you that you could correctly put a condom on yourself or your partner"

That's hardly "graphic"

This survey was administered in a city with among the highest HIV infection rates in the nation.

Kids are starting to have sex in their early teens (like, at age 13) with increasing frequency. They are hardly "too young" to understand or be taught this material.

-m

 

[Axolotl]

For the benefit of those living outside the US. How old is a 7th grader?

12-13, youngest person to take this was just eleven years old though. (I also outside the U.S)

That old? Wow.

I mean seriously. From the context I'd assumed that this was meaning 7 or 8 year olds.

Over here in the UK we get the first proper sex-ed about 10 and to be honest that was long after we'd all learnt everything about it.

 

[CitySquirrel]

For the benefit of those living outside the US. How old is a 7th grader?

12-13, youngest person to take this was just eleven years old though. (I also outside the U.S)

That old? Wow.

I mean seriously. From the context I'd assumed that this was meaning 7 or 8 year olds.

Over here in the UK we get the first proper sex-ed about 10 and to be honest that was long after we'd all learnt everything about it.

Remember, we were founded by puritans =)

 

[bad rider]

For the benefit of those living outside the US. How old is a 7th grader?

between 11 and 13.

This outrage is totally moronic, by the way.

The questions on the survey that are drawing concern were:

"How certain are you that you could name all four bodily fluids capable of transmitting the HIV virus"

and

"How certain are you that you could correctly put a condom on yourself or your partner"

That's hardly "graphic"

This survey was administered in a city with among the highest HIV infection rates in the nation.

Kids are starting to have sex in their early teens (like, at age 13) with increasing frequency. They are hardly "too young" to understand or be taught this material.

-m

Agreed, it's justifiable to do the test, but it's funny that the parental notice got sent out so it arrived when they did the test. Thats a little bit wrong.

 

[Spinozaad]

Puritanism: the haunting fear that someone, somewhere might actually teach their fellow moralists about the world.

Moralists are moronic, but that's a contradictio in terminis.

 

[JaredXE]

I seriously doubt that the kids were 'bewildered' or 'hyperventilating'. You tend to get the puberty talk in school around 5th grade, and if the school isn't following the blatant lies perpetrated by the abstinance-only teaching method, you get proper sex-ed around 6-7th grade. It's amazing how many parents forget what they knew and how they acted when they were young, like kids became more innocent in the meantime.

Good on the school for trying to educate (that I have to remark on that is ridiculious), and I hope they cut down on HIV infections.

 

[Littlee300]

Can't they just use a sign that says "Don't fuck without a condom or fuck someone with a HIV if you want to be safe"
Edit: Everyone learns on streets and on internet now-a-days xD
Edit edit: I remember when I was in sixth grade and heard so much stories of what the seventh graders did in bathrooms... and in morman church sometimes too...
Aww America..

 

[Scde2]

Now for today's bullshit story.

They are 13 years old, they probably know what sex is. It's better to teach them how to have sex safely before someone gets pregnant or HIV.

 

[Celtic_Kerr]

For the benefit of those living outside the US. How old is a 7th grader?

between 11 and 13.

This outrage is totally moronic, by the way.

The questions on the survey that are drawing concern were:

"How certain are you that you could name all four bodily fluids capable of transmitting the HIV virus"

and

"How certain are you that you could correctly put a condom on yourself or your partner"

That's hardly "graphic"

This survey was administered in a city with among the highest HIV infection rates in the nation.

Kids are starting to have sex in their early teens (like, at age 13) with increasing frequency. They are hardly "too young" to understand or be taught this material.

-m

I can't rmemeber the survey actually, but in Quebec, the AVERAGE age to loe your virginity right now is 13. Not I can understand 13+, the test was administered amongst the age group of 10 - 50 and wasn't completely based around sex, but a plathora of topics. it simply asked at one point "Are you a virgin?" and "If not, at what age did you lose your virginity?" No one was shocked, outrages, nothing.

13 year olds are having sex, but still have that immature capacity where "bodily fluids" is somehow offensive, and parents think the meer mention of AIDS will infect their children. The test has been going for seven years. If it was so bad, why have they been able to give out the same test seven years running?

 

[Armored Prayer]

Really? If the people of Georgetown think thats bad, then they should never travel up north for about five miles. Here in Maryland and in a particular county, students learn a little sex ed in fifth grade elementary(around 10-11 years old). Not sure if they still do it, but I learned when I was young it as well as my brother four years latter.

The parents are overreacting, and the school should continue its program. It will help lower DC's STD rate.

 

[Nostalgia Ripoff]

Wow. And I was 9 when I had my first Sex Ed class. Granted, it was called Family Life and was just a glorified Health class, but they talked about sperm and eggs and puberty and all that. That seems like it's leaving stuff out, (because it is) but we were in the 4th Grade at the time, and we had one or two semesters for it.

 

[eggy32]

I don't get it, honestly. At that age everyone knows what sex is and everyone has seen it, why would anyone be hyperventilating when given porn? (unless it was some some sort of bizarre tentacle rape hentai thing)

 

[BlueberryMUNCH]

Pretty sure thats an exagguration, were they really, honestly that disturbed?
I cant believe it personally, but maybe thats because here in England we have such a liberal attitude towards sex and sexual activities; heck, i lost my virginity at 14.

I think this is really interesting if they really were this bothered; if this survey was done somewhere in the UK on 12-13 year olds, there would probably be a lot of giggling o.o

 

[Slaanax]

That's funny, on a side note I first a naked women in a magazine at the age of 5 so I doubt it was the kids first exposure sexual contact.