Letters to the Editor
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Just wondering, when do you learn about sex ed in the US? Is it High School? I assume it varies from state to state, but what's the average? I'd hazard a guess that it's 11th Grade.
Doesn't that seem a little...ummm....late? Why wouldn't you want to explain these things BEFORE it's an issue? Heck even in my Catholic Canadian education we learned about all this stuff in 5th Grade (excepting of course any mention of condoms ;) and you'd have a unit on Sex Ed every year up until 12th Grade. I especially found the last one amusing...that's when they finally broach the topic of contraceptives, but tell you that they're all basically abortions...which made us all laugh, as most people in the class were using birth control anyways. OH! and they made us watch that awful pro-life movie "The Silent Scream"...which again probably didn't have the intended result as all we did was mimic the stilted narrator for weeks afterwards :)
sorry, that was a bit of a tangent there...what can I say? slow day at work.