SRE (Sex and relationships education)

I think you should be taught it when you're older than in elementary, because when I was in 5th (I had to find out then) I just pretty much blocked out almost everything I heard... But you should be taught before 9th, which is high school around here, anyway. So I'd suppose 6th grade would do fine, you'd be... 11-12 by then? That seems fine to me, anyway.
 
Reina said:
I think you should be taught it when you're older than in elementary, because when I was in 5th (I had to find out then) I just pretty much blocked out almost everything I heard... But you should be taught before 9th, which is high school around here, anyway. So I'd suppose 6th grade would do fine, you'd be... 11-12 by then? That seems fine to me, anyway.
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Agreed. Elementary is WAY too early for it, and by the time high school hits at least I know a large portion of the boys will have already gone on their first couple porn sites. Middle school and preferably a large portion in year 7 is a great way to handle it.
 
Imo, 6th grade is too young and most of the kids are too immature so it just turns into giggling and a waste of class time. I never took a sex ed class, seemed pretty straight forward to be honets. Rod A goes to Slot B. I don't really see a point in them.

"Don't go out and do things with people who smell like cheap wine and broken dreams."

and the infallable "Don't be a fool, wrap your tool."


But I think that like 9th grade is good, since thats when most people start to or have already hit puberty and are (a little) more mature than middle school.
 
I learnt about sex, officially, in year six. Although, there were rumours going around about where babies came from. By the time I got into secondary school, I was exposed to a lot of sexual terms and, by the end of year seven, I knew a lot about sex. More, I think, that a normal twelve year old should know. In year ten, we did sex and relationships and this gave me a new perspective on how sex brings people together and really furthers relationships.

To be honest, I think the basics should be taught in year seven, more in depth in year nine and then team it with relationships in year eleven.
 
My school did a small "puberty talk" in fifth grade, and in high school we actually had a sec education section in our Biology class. Of course, they didn't even mention contraception and 3/4 of the girls in my senior class ended up pregnant...
 
Yes. People need to learn these things eventually, and people start puberty around that age, so it makes sense.

If they don't learn it from school, then they'll probably learn it from random people at their school, or (god forbid) the internet. And sometimes, they learn parts of it from nicknames of pokemon on the GTS.
 
Wow, you get that in school that early in the UK? (Referring to the OP)

Here in Norway we don't get educated about it before 8th and 9th grade. (when we're 13-14 years old.)
 
I would rather children didn't know about it much at all until they got to, say 17-18, but that's more than a little impractical considering the state of things.

They're starting at nine now? There goes 4.57% of my hope in humanity.
Thanks, internet. And the mid-'80s.
 
Lol. I've still never been told anything by my parents.It's brilliant.

Sometimes i wonder if they read the Daily Mail (UK) and assume i've probably lost my virginity anyhow:P

Still, if people don't learn, bad things happen (like 8 year old fathers)
 
Timbjerr said:
I got "the talk" from my dad when I was 10 though. :P

Fun fact: When my dad gave me "the talk", he utilized pr0n websites as a visual aid. XD
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Your dad is full of WIN!!!!!!lol
 
My first Sex Ed class was Grade Three, but that was more of a "Where Babies Come From"/"Terminology" class than any actual knowledge... We started actual classes of it again in Grade Five until Grade Nine...

I think it's moronic for people to think children shouldn't be educated. Parents are often too embarrassed to teach their children these sort of things, and they often don't have all of the information that teachers have access to... :\
 
entrancer. said:
I learned about sex when I was six through friends. Children should just be taught at the age of twelve that if you touch another human being sexually, you will die.
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That movie is just epic win.

That's what I tell the sophomores at my school now. They think I'm so perverted because I make sex jokes all the time, and my version of sex ed to them is basically "If you touch each other, you will get pregnant, and die." That's what I tell my sister, anyhow. I think it's quite effective.
 
We first had Sex Ed in Year 5 (ages 9/10), and like gamer691 said, it was just a load of giggling, really. I then had further Sex Ed lessons in Year 9 (ages 13/14) and in Year 13 (ages 17/18). I don't know why they suddenly decided that we should learn Sex Ed when we've all been over the age of consent for at least one and a half years, but clearly my school had been doing something wrong, as it was only last month that we 'learnt' how to put a condom on (despite near enough all of us knowing already having not been taught, if you see what I mean). :| I think Years 5 and 9 are a good time to learn it, along with whatever is taught in Biology lessons.
 
Primary 7, aka aged 11. Best lesson ever. I recall at the start my teacher said something along the lines of "Alright, there's one thing I need to get out of the way," and then bellows the word "sex". It sorta echoed through the classroom. There was much laughing. The rest of it consisted of a crappy video with lots of cross-sections. I think every year since then we've had it in some shape or form. In fact, last year I was almost sick, I'm not even going to show you were they were sticking that camera.
 
Apophenia said:
We first had Sex Ed in Year 5 (ages 9/10), and like gamer691 said, it was just a load of giggling, really. I then had further Sex Ed lessons in Year 9 (ages 13/14) and in Year 13 (ages 17/18). I don't know why they suddenly decided that we should learn Sex Ed when we've all been over the age of consent for at least one and a half years, but clearly my school had been doing something wrong, as it was only last month that we 'learnt' how to put a condom on (despite near enough all of us knowing already having not been taught, if you see what I mean). :| I think Years 5 and 9 are a good time to learn it, along with whatever is taught in Biology lessons.
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:laugh:

In Grade Nine the teacher showed us... with something thrown together by the shop teacher. :shocked:

JakeyBoy said:
Primary 7, aka aged 11. Best lesson ever. I recall at the start my teacher said something along the lines of "Alright, there's one thing I need to get out of the way," and then bellows the word "sex". It sorta echoed through the classroom. There was much laughing. The rest of it consisted of a crappy video with lots of cross-sections. I think every year since then we've had it in some shape or form. In fact, last year I was almost sick, I'm not even going to show you were they were sticking that camera.
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I remember we had a slide show about the dangers of STDs, and what they did... those images are burned in my mind forever...
 
At 5th and 6th grade, I can tell you I certainly did not want to know. The fact that they feel the need to teach us these things at that age is, honestly, rather ****** up. It would've been better in 7th or 8th grade. We'd have been older, and maybe understand what they're talking about, rather than just get messed up in the head by disgusting STD images. Not to mention in my high school to graduate you must take one semester of health. More images=more of my mental stability gone.

Important lesson to be learned from sex ed: "Don't ever have sex or you will get (insert pretty much any STD here) and die!!!11!111!!!one!"
 
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I think that it is perfectly suitable for that sorta age.
I learnt at that age, not in too much detail though until later on.
But in some cases it can be bad when the child is too young.
For example, Some time ago a 12 year old got a 13 year old pregnant and the 12 year old kid became a dad!
 
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