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Agreed. There are young people having sex in middle school. It is important to reach them early.
So they already know that young people are sexually active. Why do they need to survey them in detail? Just teach the subject academically and scientifically.
I'm from a different mindset, where you send the kids to school to learn subjects like history, math and reading. I don't even see how the school is responsible for a private thing like sexuality, that often intersects with religion, which is the parent's domain.
My kids are out of school now, but in our current climate, if I had to do it again I'd home school. It is becoming clear that schools are far too interested in molding children, rather than teaching them.
Was on Long Island. Started in 6th grade. I personally asked the teacher about BJs because I honestly didn’t know. This was way way way before the internet.
And I was in NYC, Manhattan to be exact.
Sex education was not taught in schools until 1978
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I’m in my 60s and we were asked those questions - anonymously. I remember laughing about it with my friends. I’m pretty sure my kids were also 20 years ago. No big deal really.
My kids were also asked similiar questions about drug and alcohol use.
Same. How does anyone in this thread think they get those stats when you read about teen sexual activity? I’ve long thought them unreliable because we laughed this off too.
So they already know that young people are sexually active. Why do they need to survey them in detail? Just teach the subject academically and scientifically.
I'm from a different mindset, where you send the kids to school to learn subjects like history, math and reading. I don't even see how the school is responsible for a private thing like sexuality, that often intersects with religion, which is the parent's domain.
My kids are out of school now, but in our current climate, if I had to do it again I'd home school. It is becoming clear that schools are far too interested in molding children, rather than teaching them.
All we wanted to know in high school was how, where and how much was an abortion. They were just made legal back then.
Many girls didn’t have to drop out of school because of the law change.
My kids are out of school now, but in our current climate, if I had to do it again I'd home school. It is becoming clear that schools are far too interested in molding children, rather than teaching them.
Same! My kids are all now approaching 30. I too would be yanking them out of the indoctrination centers, um, I mean schools.
Not seeing the problem. The survey is not mandatory and is also anonymous. It is important to know what these young people are engaging in and how many are possibly involved in adult activity.
It is the language of the article that is problematic. The article uses the language “sex and dating lives.” When it comes to teens, those activities should not be characterized as such. The survey is an inquiry into the number of teens involved in premature activities and how they are perceiving themselves.
Why?
If a guy on the street were asking kids these questions, he'd be arrested. The community would be in uproar and the guy would be hunted down. Ever seen those FB threads where moms post about the weird guy in the park and warn other parents???
Jesus some of y'all are so repressed. I got asked questions like these (under a mostly anonymous setting) when I was in middle school and high school in the mid-00's. It's not that weird, kids of both sexes start sleeping around pretty young whether you want to acknowledge it or not. It's just part of human nature, and since humans start to become sexually mature as young as 11 or 12, we should absolutely be teaching them about the dangers of unprotected sex, STDs, along with giving them correct information about the changes their bodies are going through.
This is nothing more than manufactured outrage for the so-called 'purity' culture.
It doesn't belong in the school.
Has nothing to do with purity culture.
It's a passive way to shove more indoctrination at students.
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