Parents fume over salacious sex lesson

Chicago Tribune ^ | March 10, 2007 | Tracy Dell'Angela

[tsowellfan]

Unfortunately it has been the "norm" atleast since 1974. Not sure if they still offer Sex. Ed. in 5th grade but they did when I went to school and the only thing different was that the students would write the questions, put them in a box and the teacher would ask the questions out loud using whatever explicit language was written.

Some students would actually test the teachers by writing the worst possible questions using the worst language you could think of and there was no limit.

[Lurker]

He just looked at me and said, 'Calm down, calm down.'"

I'll just bet he did.

Maybe he should have asked her to stay after class so he could discuss her concerns in more detail privately.

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[garylmoore]

We have stooped that low as to teach about oral sex in the classroom, we are a morally decaying country.

[tenthirteen]

Any oral sex dissertation in a classroom should be called the Bill Clinton Lesson. What a shameless disgrace.

[padre35]

8th grade verbal porn at the taxpayer's expense is over he top for me at least.

[Mobile Vulgus]

And to think, in 8th grade I got an in school suspension for having a Playboy magazine in my gym bag. Now it is the TEACHERS who are bringing in the smut!

[kb2614]

Anybody see Monty Pythons "The Meaning of Life"?? Thats the first thing I thought of when I read this, but I'm a goofball.

This is, sadly, not surprising anymore.

[sure_fine]

to me, its very wrong that you can not have God in school, but you can have all the sex you want

[mkjessup]

I remember my 'health' class from the 60's when our first year gym teacher Mr. Chatham (who looked eerily like Clark Kent) got up in front of the class with an overhead projector and proceeded to literally READ the curriculum material to us (with the obligatory smirks and snickers from us guys, it WAS still an all-male gym class for us), and never will any of us in that class forget when Mr. Chatham pointed to the groin of a sketch of a young lady on the overhead, and said "what are these hairs called?" and one wise guy said "PUBLIC HAIRS!" and Mr. Chatham corrected him saying, "not quite, those are -pubic hairs-" and our young fellow comedian retorted "if it's Suzi _____ (last name of 'popular' young lady deleted), they're PUBLIC hairs!"

Mr. Chatham just folded up the book and said "We're done for today."

[CheyennePress]

Oh dear....

Hahaha! Great story! I bet that one's good for parties...

[mkjessup]

Oh dear....
Hahaha! Great story! I bet that one's good for parties...

Especially since Suzi went on to become a very devout and well respected Christian school teacher, proving that the Lord can change every heart, even when it disappoints scores of virile young men. ;)

[cincinnati65]

Here are the questions. I can't imagine young teens having to read these aloud in class:

What is the average penis size?

Does my vagina look the way it should?

Where is the G-spot and what is it?

Where is the clitoris and what is it?

Is there any way of finding out whether a girl is a virgin or not without going to the doctors?

How do you masturbate?

Is too much masturbation bad for you?

Where can I get condoms from?

How often do people have sex

Is there a way of stopping premature ejaculation?

Does sexual intercourse hurt?

Is there a need for lubrication?

If a woman experiences problems reaching orgasm with boyfriend can she do anything about it?

How do you French kiss?

What is oral sex?

Which STDs are transmitted through oral sex?

Is receiving oral sex with a condom safe? Can you pass on or become infected with STDs as a result of kissing?

Do you need to use condoms during anal sex?

If my girlfriend is on birth control do we still need to use a condom?

[grimalkin]

This is bizarre. When I was in school (80's), our sex ed (which was actually part of our health class) consisted of diagrams on how babies were made and information on STD's. It was all things that you could find in almost any medical reference book. That was it. It must have lasted for less than a week and then we moved onto other things. Why have we moved onto giving pornography to our youth? I certainly don't want to pay for that. Crazy.

[gotribe]

This must be from the How to be a Porn Star 101 curriculum.

[scottteng]

another reason to homeschool ping

[csvset]

Those are the questions? Holy cow!

If I tried asking people those questions, I'd probably be arrested.

[cincinnati65]

The article referenced avert.org Sex General Questions. That's a copy of the questions from their site. It was pretty clear that the answers to these questions were written from a female point of view.

[madprof98]

Do you need to use condoms during anal sex?

No doubt the 8th graders had been asking themselves this very question even before they came to the class.

[NewHampshireDuo]

When I was in school (80's), our sex ed (which was actually part of our health class)

When I was in school (late 50s into the 60s) our health class didn't have anything on sex and the most personal it got was washing hands after going to the bathroom.