Schools are offering sexual education classes, how many of you are for educating/reinforcing sexual education at schools? How many prefer to do it themselves???

I will be providing that to my children, thank you very much.

oh god......um.....well, my daughter is 10 and I planned to just the usual....instill the fear of god into her and him and clean my guns every night after she gets home from school and the WHOLE collection sees light on weekends....pretty simple....to the point...and easy. Never said I wouldn't serve time for mine.

would you pull your child from that class? keep your child home if you knew that class was going to be held?

guess my question is would you allow your child to attend the class held in school?

In some states it's a requirement...they won't let you back em out

Our mom let us go to sex ed. I found it important. I don't know the exact numbers but there are statistics out there taht state that more kids taught only abstinecne end up pregnant.

It's not going to work J/K

was not aware of that, thanks for info

I do not have children yet, but I fully support sex education in schools. I was a lead peer educator for two years at my college. We went to freshmen floors and taught safe sex practices and safe drinking practices. It was amazing to me how many of the kids coming in had no idea when it came to these topics! Sex education is exceedingly important. They're going to have sex either way, it's better to have them doing it when they're as informed as possible.

i think its a good idea..my son was eight when he started to pick stuff up from the playground..luckily we have very good communication and i got a book for his age group and we sat down and went threw it..but it woud be good to be backed up by the school.. especially about safe sex...and i would also tell my son if hes not sure or confused to tell me...half of what gos on with kids and sex is ignorance

Personally....this might sound too harsh but.....I always had thought kids on a field trip...all in one day.....the jails....the YWCA/homeless shelters and shelters for battered women and children........as well as photos of abortions.....that should take care of unwanted and early pregnancies but too many would say that that is too extreme and unnecessary...to them I say......then where is the answer and why haven't you found one yet that works? if you got a better one than why hasn't it been done yet?

Sex ed in school is required here.

thanks beach......I knew it was in some states....just not sure exactly which ones

you're very welcome

yes, I would. As well as answer questions my daughter has about it and have a talk with her at home. I want her to be educated, it's her best defense.

best defense is none at all. I wish I could ship her to Mars or some **** but my luck in about 4 years she would come back and I would have alien grandkids

i will be talking to my children, but i dont feel that there is anything wrong with recieving it in school as well.. that way i know that not only is my daughter informed. but so is lil johnnie from down the street..
as for the age at which they offer it.. that is another story.

I ABSOLUTELY would not only allow it but welcome it!

honestly that's not really that effective.. scare tactics don't really work. kids need to see reasonable consequences otherwise they'll keep the "it wont happen to me" mentality. It's better to teach them to do things responsibly rather than try to get them to not do it at all. They will either way, but if you go with the "if you have sex, you will get pregnant and get std's, even if you use a condom" type of tactic, they'll end up doing it anyway just not using protection because why bother if it'll happen either way?

(not saying that was your stance, just commenting on the scare tactic way of going about things in general)