Maine leads the way in tween sex ed!Follow

While I think their attitude is in the right place, I'm unsure that giving children that young the hormones in birth control pills is the right way to go about it.

I welcome the school's involvement in my kids' sexual education. I will be responsible and talk to my kids whenever I can about these issues but any additional advice and information schools and teachers can provide will be supported by me. I hope that my children feel that they can come to Mr. Tare or I at any time, for any issue, but I know there are some things that will remain confidential. Maybe we won't get through on some thing but a school ed program will. If it means less teen pregnancy/std risk, it's ok by me.

I don't have kids yet, but I can't see how more/better sex ed at school, from an early age, could be detrimental for the kids.

Of course, this assumes that the school in question doesn't force-feed the pill to unsuspecting 12 year olds on a daily basis, while telling them that **** sex is the most natural form of "safe sex", but surely we're all too grown up for this kind of silly slippery slope argument.

I know that sex-ed in schools in the UK is both slightly taboo and completely outdated, and they have the highest rate of teenage pregnancy in Europe. I don't think its a coincidence.


I gues it all depends on what you think the role of schools should be. Minimalist might say that their role is only to prepare mindless drones for future employment, but I really think schools should do a lot more than that.

Yeah, well, you guys got BT so it's slightly unfair...

Hubby and I have a pretty good communication connection with all 3 of our children. We know that there's some things that they will come to us about and there's other things that they would rather rip out their tongue than talk to us, simply because of the embarrassment factor.

I'm lucky because with my large extended family, my kids have no problem going to an someone else in my family if they feel the need. They just haven't learned that there are no secrets in my family and sooner or later I hear about what's going on. Which just makes it easier for me to be able to open up communication lanes with my kids.

I like to think that the schools are more as a safety net for my own situation. But there are other parents that let the schools deal with the embarrassing, messy questions that they would not want to face with their own kids.

My kids hear the safe sex message at school, as well as the abstinence lecture at catechism. They know my feelings on the subjet and whenever they go out they hear from me "No drinking, no drugs, no touching below the neck." It's gotten to the point that they parrot it back to me as they walk out the door.

I'm not a parent, but I think it's a good thing that schools get involved in educating the kids. When I was a young lad, I never talked to my folks about sex and they didn't bring it up to me either. By the time my Pops even ventured to broach the subject, I was already 18 and I told him he was too late, I had it covered.

It's hard to fathom 6th graders having sex, but it does happen. And it certainly happens with 8th graders.

As a woman and mother, I am all for health clinics in school, giving birth control to 11 year olds. I live in a state that allows underage kids to receive birth control, without their parents consent, with kept me from being a teenage mother 30 years ago.

I just wasn't comfortable talking to my mother about getting on the pill, though she work on getting the law pass. We had an HMO and my doctor visits and co-pays never were on the monthly bills my parents got from it.

A couple of years later, when my younger sister blood pressure went up, while on the pill, my mom was active in helping her get another form of birth control. Not that it stop my sister from having her first child at 18. She use it to black mail her boyfriend into marrying her. They are still married and now expecting their 2nd grandchild.

As to my own 3 girls, I started their sex education from birth. By the time my oldest was in 3 or 4th grade, she would correct her peers on safe sex and AIDS. I went with all 3 of the girls, when they got on birth control, though they knew I wish they would have waited until they were 18.

My oldest at 19, got engage and pregnant on the same day, while visiting her boyfriend in NY. She went to doctor's when she got back home, to get her Depo-Provera shot and was told then that she was pregnant. My first grandchild was 4 months old, when they had their wedding.

One can't ride public transportation in Baltimore, without see teenage mothers who are unfit mothers. Babies get yelled at to stop crying, seems to be common around here. The public health and school system try to reach out to prevent teenage pregnancy, but funding is not enough and 25 years too late. Thank goodness we at least have JHU's Bloomburg School of Public Health trying to reach out to young parents.

Perhaps your daughter will ask you if she can get laid and pregnant. Most don't ask their daddies though.

So, no this program says the kids have to have written permission, despite state law that says they don't.

...and technically if the school is providing the pill, then the community (via property taxes) and not the state is footing the bill, though my guess is there is some state funding somewhere in the mix.

Some relevant statistics!

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I didn't think they had cheerleaders in Junior High. I always figured as cute as those colour-coordinated panties (I love that word) are, I owe it to them to bring my own rubbers.

After all, I am a gentleman, anything less would be tacky.

It is liberal ideas like this that will forever force my back alley abortions to be a supplement to my primary income and not my primary income.

Which means they're most definitely doing those things.

What i want to know is, did they really name a middle school after Stephen King already?

Meh, you only face consequences if you get caught, and teens aren't apathetic about the subject-quite the opposite. My father didn't know I was having sex until 5 years after the fact. My mother knew only because I chose to tell her. I had a girlfriend whose mother encouraged her to be open, told her how great sex was, and took her to get on the pill when she turned fourteen. That year she lost her virginity to her boyfriend, and when he broke up with her sxi months later, she tried to kill herself.

Somewhere in between the two is a happy medium. You, a full-grown man, knocked up your wife when you didn't mean to, didn't you? Those hormones are tricksy.