In this thread here
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/18.75485?page=1
I felt many foreigners (that?s pronounced fuhrn-nerz) were unfairly portraying our educational system. Specifically sexual health.
The thing with the USA is not everything is uniform because it's the third most populous nation in the world (I think it?s like 4.5% of the world population more than 300 million don?t quote me on that though) the largest that allows individual areas to govern themselves to a degree. So you CANNOT make broad generalizing strokes about Americans in almost any sort of way.
That being said; let us satiate curiosities about the Sex Ed in your individual areas.
Example: Here?s how we do it in ignorant, podunk, backwoods, evil red state
- Nebraska -
In my public school we had sex ed that was basically the mechanics and simplified biological explanation at 5th grade (ages 10-11) this was basically a 'here's where babies come from' thing.
Then in 7th grade (that's 12-13) they went over more specifics and began explaining the hygiene, STD's, habits, as well as some cultural and societal values and norms. We also watched a video of a child being born.
In 10th grade(about 15-16) They repeat everything above, add slide shows of STDs explain emotional and psychological readiness. The consequences of childbearing. A lot about contraceptives. On a kind of different note this class also talks about drug use pretty extensively and suicide things like that.
The tone of all our classes did stress abstinence as the best method to avoid pregnancy and STD?s but did allow us to learn about other methods quite a lot.
Despite all this the urban areas of our state has some of the highest percentage of STDs in the country in young people.
This is in no way me defending the Botarded law we passed.
Here?s about 50 articles on the Botarded law
http://www.omaha.com/index.php?u_page=2798&u_sid=10458731
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/18.75485?page=1
I felt many foreigners (that?s pronounced fuhrn-nerz) were unfairly portraying our educational system. Specifically sexual health.
The thing with the USA is not everything is uniform because it's the third most populous nation in the world (I think it?s like 4.5% of the world population more than 300 million don?t quote me on that though) the largest that allows individual areas to govern themselves to a degree. So you CANNOT make broad generalizing strokes about Americans in almost any sort of way.
That being said; let us satiate curiosities about the Sex Ed in your individual areas.
Example: Here?s how we do it in ignorant, podunk, backwoods, evil red state
- Nebraska -
In my public school we had sex ed that was basically the mechanics and simplified biological explanation at 5th grade (ages 10-11) this was basically a 'here's where babies come from' thing.
Then in 7th grade (that's 12-13) they went over more specifics and began explaining the hygiene, STD's, habits, as well as some cultural and societal values and norms. We also watched a video of a child being born.
In 10th grade(about 15-16) They repeat everything above, add slide shows of STDs explain emotional and psychological readiness. The consequences of childbearing. A lot about contraceptives. On a kind of different note this class also talks about drug use pretty extensively and suicide things like that.
The tone of all our classes did stress abstinence as the best method to avoid pregnancy and STD?s but did allow us to learn about other methods quite a lot.
Despite all this the urban areas of our state has some of the highest percentage of STDs in the country in young people.
This is in no way me defending the Botarded law we passed.
Here?s about 50 articles on the Botarded law
http://www.omaha.com/index.php?u_page=2798&u_sid=10458731
