Writer's Block: School days

[mothwing]

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No, of course not, sex is a very personal issue and I want my children to find out about it  based on their secret observations on RedTube at a friend's house, playground hearsay about Coke being a great contraceptive and whatever people harassing them online or IRL tell them. Formal education on the subject would completely ruin their innocent outlook on life!

How is this even a question, LJ?

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[cranky--crocus.livejournal.com]

I remember getting lists and lists of all the symptoms of sexual diseases. Although I had the new health teacher who looked like the kind of guy who had JUST left the military and was there to teach gym; he left after my second year of health with him.

Although I do remember one of the pages in our 'booklet' was about a girl with an abusive boyfriend or something like that, and we were supposed to give her advice. I put down something like, "Drop the dude and date chicks. Or, really, dump anyone who doesn't respect you and your body - take it to the authorities if you have to, and tell people about it so they can help protect you. Research the help services for abuse. Get a restraining order if you have to."

When my friends saw the answer they wondered how on Earth I got credit, but the teacher had underlined the first line and scribbled, "Well, it is advice..."

I also brought up LGBTQQIAP issues as often as I could. I'm sure I sounded a bit like a soapbox preacher. :Þ

[mothwing.livejournal.com]

I also brought up LGBTQQIAP issues as often as I could. I'm sure I sounded a bit like a soapbox preacher. :Þ
All the better for your classmates! :D

I'm at a loss as to what your teacher might have been expecting if not that, for advice, I mean. Is there anything else she could do, or did she think people should go for, "stick with him, you can chaaaange him!!!!"?

[cranky--crocus.livejournal.com]

I don't think he was expecting the first line of my advice, or that I would start my advice with a little bit of a joke. (Which is often what I would do anyway - I have found that humour is an excellent bridge in conversation, and opens people up more than they would have expected.) But he should have expected a "date girls!" from me, given how incredibly out I was fresher year.

...I really wish I had had the lesbian health teacher...

[mothwing.livejournal.com]

Oh, good, I was getting really worried there.

...I really wish I had had the lesbian health teacher...
I can imagine. :D I wish I had had a competent sex ed teacher once. I had two people who were incredibly anti-body themselves, so that went well.

[cranky--crocus.livejournal.com]

I couldn't expect anything from my school sex ed, but my church one was great - the two instructors were fantastic. And I loved the LGBT panel we had since I was already coming out at the time. (Nowadays I'm on the panel, which is just...wow.) We had "all sorts of people have sex!" slides that were rather graphic, but actually beautiful in their own way--and did help me realise that sex wasn't just between attractive married people to create attractive little spawn. And we had lots of discussions on sex, the age of first sexual activity, what "feeling ready" feels like and why there's no shame in waiting, even if peers think there is. And we got pizza during every session.

It was a win-win situation.