| Osborn F Enready:
If you are dealing with a public school however, good luck in getting your word to mean anything.
Kids learn lots of stuff in school, successfully. When they dont take messages to heart is when they perceive them as bullshit. This especially occurs with sex education, which ought to tell us something. All you need do to be taken seriously is to give a message that _can_ be taken seriously.
High school kids are no brain surgeons, but they can understand simple concepts that make sense. Contracpetion is a simple conept that makes sense. Not getting aids is a simple concept that makes sense. Understanding the implications of abortion is simple and makes sense.
The problem is that the adults involved have such a big emotional problem with the subject that theyre unable to carry a sensible message to the kids, or frankly even be sensible half the time.
We must work with the teachers we have, so we need to bypass this problem and provide proper information. The simple way to do that is in books. There is really no need for sex ed to be taught in class if a good quality book provides it all. Kids might not be that into reading, but when it concerns sex they will be, as long as the content is sensible, clear, honest, ie something they will take seriously, and not too dry so they dont get bored to sleep.
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