Birds, bees belong in school

New York Daily News ^ | June 7, 2006 | Lenore Skenazy

[Tax-chick]

Retch. No, genius, sex education does not prevent pregnancy. *Not having sex* prevents pregnancy. And as a free bonus, it's also good for avoiding disease.

Wow, that was some heavy mental lifting.

[Steely Tom]

This argument was already old in 1962.

Lenore Skenazy talks like she should get a prize for inventing "Sex Education."

Earth to Lenore: it's already being done. Where are the great results?

[edpc]

Did you know that if you jump up and down after sex, you can't get pregnant?

I dunno.....it's worked for me.

[trisham]

Shaquana Gardener is an 11th-grader in public school who works as a peer educator at Planned Parenthood"They've taught us about HIV and AIDS and infectious diseases and how to protect yourself against them," says the lower East Side teen. That means they've discussed condoms as disease fighters.

Her class has also studied how conception occurs, right down to the diagrams of the birth canal. "But contraception," says Shaquana, "it's not in the text book. I looked through the index. \[Even\] when you get to the pregnancy unit, there's no mention of contraception."

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I shudder to think what kind of parents produced this poor child.

[GovernmentShrinker]

Peronally I think it's a good idea to teach how-to contraception in public schools, but this article is simply full of it when it claims NYC public high school grads won't know anything but some silly myths if they get don't get taught this subject in the classroom. They all have friends who've had babies and/or abortions in their teens, and those girls have gotten plenty of info at the public hospitals and public/private clinics where they gave birth or had abortions. Info spreads throughout peer groups.

[Tax-chick]

The kind who would let their teenager be a "peer educator" for Planned Parenthood.

[goodnesswins]

Support SEPARATION OF SEX AND SCHOOL!!

[FreepinforTerri]

Sex ed has failed. Period.

Abstinence education works. Period.

I think certain adults hate abstinence education because it suggests that human beings actually CAN be responsible and make choices that delay gratification and they're still grasping for rationale to excuse their own impulsivity and irresponsibility.

[goodnesswins]

I think the "teaching" of sex education for public schools should be contracted out to whatever choice the Parent chooses......Church, Planned Parenthood, PARENT.....get it out of the classroom.

[presidio9]

...was going to include a subheading like "Lenore Skenazy" takes a week off from her typical weighty journalism on topics like "Katie Couric's 'perkiness' is a role modle for perky people everywhere"

(actual topic of last week's editorial)

[TChris]

But, hey, that's the way it goes when state laws do not mandate the teaching of birth control in the schools.

The same could be said of any number of other topics. Can you think of some "how to beat a DUI arrest" myths? I can. Should drinking and the proper way to measure your BAC be required subjects in school?

I'm sure you can think of plenty of other subjects every child should learn that are his parents' responsibility and right to teach to him.

[trisham]

The kind who would let their teenager be a "peer educator" for Planned Parenthood.

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Exactly. Very, very strange interest for a teen.

[Theophilus]

adjusting the thermostat in hell bump

[RandallFlagg]

Here's your birds:

And here's your bees:

Well, maybe not.

[Rakkasan1]

do you mean teachers should stop having sex with students?

[steve-b]

Did you know that if you take the clip out of an automatic pistol, it can't shoot? If you hold it sideways, you'll protect yourself from hitting yourself with an unfortunate ricochet. Other effective handling techniques include wearing extra-baggy pants if you carry a pistol in your pocket and placing the butt of a rifle up to your cheek to sight along the barrel.

That could sum up everything you know about firearms when you graduate from a New York public high school. You would have learned it all in the schoolyard, of course, not the classroom. And you would be utterly, heartbreakingly wrong.

I await the author's demand for immediate educational remedies for this sad situation.

[nolaw0ady]

I jump up and down BEFORE sex, and then ask the girl why she's running away.