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Opinion Thursday: Educating the Young Generation

The September 26, 2013 prompt for "30-Day Blogging Challenge ON HIATUS"  is
What is your opinion on how schools (high school and/or college) teach sexual education? How did your school handle some of the sensitive subjects? (If you are at all uncomfortable on this topic, feel free to discuss your opinion on any aspect of the education system that you feel needs revision.)

I suspect or I hope, that the school system is covering more on sex eduction today then they covered when I was in high school. I do not remember what I learned about this subject in the classroom, if I learned anything there or not. Most of what I learned about sex in high school had to do with extracurricular activities (and I am not referring to sports). I am not going to discuss my sex education in high school high school.

I think sex education should be taught in schools, but I think high school is little late the start the classes. I think these classes should be started in middle school and then expanded in high school. All right, perhaps that is a somewhat radical on this subject, but if children have accurate information they are less likely to do something stupid before they understand the consequences.

Thought of the Day: "Does sex education encourage sex? Many parents are afraid that talking about sex with their teenagers will be taken as permission for the teen to have sex. Nothing could be further from the truth. If anything, the more children learn abour sexuality from talking with their parents and teachers and reading accurate books, the less they feel compelled to find out for themselves." - BENJAMIN SPOCK, Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care