Is sex education at low levels important/necessary?

Answer 1

When you say "low levels" do you mean in grade school? Or, since this is the Special Education category, do you mean for severely disabled young people? Moderately to severely disabled people still have the same biology as everyone else, and can have babies, get STD's, etc. But since their learning styles and needs are so different than "average" people, the do need to have special education teachers and trained health/medical staff do the instruction. You can't just "give them a quick overview" and expect them to understand.

Regarding grade school sex ed... Girls, sadly, have been known to get pregnant as young as 11 years old (mostly due to rape/incest). Also, with all the hormones in our food, children are going through puberty earlier and earlier. There are boys in 4th and 5th grade with those peach-down mustaches already clear on their upper lips. Some girls are already menstruating by the end of 3rd grade.

For these young children, what is important is for them to understand the changes in their bodies so they don't freak out, or make horribly wrong choices. They need tactful, direct, and clear information. I was convinced of this after helping intervene with a young lady in 3rd grade (8 1/2 years old) in our school who had collapsed in a shrieking heap in the bathroom because she was bleeding. Her bewildered mother rushed her to the doctor because "that can't be it...it shouldn't start until she's 12 or 13....." The doctor confirmed our suspicions, however, and the young lady spent the rest of the school year very subdued and nervous, in spite of the supports she was getting from the counselor. Her mom appeared a bit frazzled, too.

I've also had to send 10 year old boys to the counselor because they were starting to get puberty reactions to girls (that tent in their pants), and didn't know why it was happening or what to do, aggravated by peer teasing by those not yet having to deal with it. The parents' reaction? He's too young... it's not happening... he doesn't need to know about that stuff yet... and meanwhile the poor kid is terrified and confused.

Because of kids starting puberty younger and younger, yes, a basic package of information should be taught at 3rd grade (boys and girls separately) so they know the what and why of hair sprouting, scary emmisions of various kinds, and other changes. The details of how a baby is made don't need to be shared yet, just that these are signs that their bodies are changing so that when they are fully grown up they will be able to have babies.

The gory details of baby-making, STDs, contraception, etc. should still be reserved until the teenage years. We don't need to scare the little ones, but reassure them.

Answer 2

The school district could offer sex ed. in the lower levels (not exactly sure what you mean by 'lower levels). But it should not be mandatory. Parents should have the option to opt their child out of the class if they don't agree with the material. And parents should be given all of the class materials long before the class begins.
Sex ed. also would need to be age-appropriate if the kids are in the 6th grade or lower. They don't need to be taught all of the explicit things that the older grade levels are taught.
In the end, I still feel that it's the parent's right/responsibility to teach their children about sex. Granted, they often drop the ball; but that does not automatically make it the school's responsibility to pick it up! I would want/need to know that the person teaching my child about sex would have the same values as my husband and I.

Answer 3

I think that sex education is very important cause most kids think that if they have sex for the first time they wont get pregnant. Or if they do it in the sea or standing up they cant get pregnant. The kids today think they know everything about sex but they dont. They need to know that there are always consequences for you actions especially sex. And if they enforce this in schools, this would lower the rates of teen pregnantcy.

Answer 4

Probably so. Kids are learning these things at much younger ages than they used to. When I was 10, I didn't know much about sex (anatomy, safe sex, anything!), but now kids even younger than that are learning WAY too much from society, and I think proper sex ed will help them realize that what they're hearing from older siblings, friends, TV shows, etc. is not all there is.

Answer 5

i am kinda split on this I do think it is needed however some teachers just cant teach very well and or dont get the respect from their students without the student respecting the teacher then I dont think it does much good..

I think parents are slacking on educating their children about everything from drugs to sex even respect......I am not saying all parents but a large majority are-----

Answer 6

I think so personally. Kids become curious about sex at ages as low as 6 and its good to tell them the dangers and recautions about although you dont' have to scare them. They aren't idiots, you jus t have to say what will happe if you do so and so.

Answer 7

Absolutely. With the world like it is sex ed should be included in basic curriculum.

Answer 8

There's really only one purpose for sex ed, and it's not to satisfy curiousity. It's to teach girls how easy it is to get pregnant, and hopefully, how much responsibility there is for boys.

Answer 9

i guess, do u mean like the video u watch when u funish 5th grade? well then yeah i think, it depends