Sex Education

        I enjoyed the discussion we had about Sex Education.  I thought it was interesting to see how different everyone's Sex Ed. experiences were.
       I went to a rural western PA high school and the only time I remember talking about Sex Ed. was in Health Class.  Our Sex Ed. was taught along with the talk about motherhood and parenting.  Our Health teacher emphasized abstinence and then showed us a video of a live birth.  It seemed counter-productive, but the video scared the shit out of me, and I think in some instances it made some of us either not want to have sex or definitely use protection so we wouldn't have to go through that.  Other than that there was not much talk about contraceptives or any methods of practicing safe sex.  I thought this was odd and felt that it should have been incorporated into the curriculum somewhere...but I also understand about funding in schools and they have to teach whatever program they are being funded for. 
     While learning about female reproduction and anatomy I think it would have been more effective to teach the girls and boys in separate classrooms.  I was in a class with a lot of immature boys who laughed constantly at pictures, etc. and were always serving as a distraction.  I think this hindered the learning of everyone and discouraged everyone from trying to pay attention.
     I think there should be a program geared towards teaching everything..abstinence, contraception, etc. and it should be taught to students at an appropriate age.  I think in my case learning about abstinence in Senior Health Class seemed almost pointless because most of the students had/were already sexually active.