Sex-Ed being suspended in Mont.co.?

[ibneko]

[ http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/06/AR2005050601648_pf.html ]

"Five months after the Montgomery County Board of Education approved a new approach to teaching students about homosexuality and condom use, a federal judge put a 10-day hold on implementation of the program, which allowed teachers to initiate discussions with eighth-graders about homosexuality and included a video for 10th-graders on how to put on a condom."

.........do 10th-graders _really_ need to know how to put on a condom? Hell, I didn't even know how to put on a condom until..... ¬.¬ >.> <.< near the end of high school, when I was running out of ways to procrastinate, and I surfed onto some safe-sex sites.

Comments

[shanrina.livejournal.com]

I don't know what it was like at RM, but given some of the people I knew at Blair, knowledge of how to put on a condom was DEFINITELY something that should have been included in my sex ed.

[marbenais.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's necessary.  Kids are having sex as kids, not as late teenagers or adults, and no amount of sex ed is going to stop that.  Also, they say it's bad to tell students that homosexuality is not bad.  Give me a fucking break.

And besides all of that crap, they need to start teaching safe same-sex sex.  Talk about creating a problem by silence . . .

[jaiwithani.livejournal.com]

Not everyone is as smart as you. Imagine if everyone used the internet to learn how to put on a condom.

On the upside, the surge in young workers 18-24 years from now would solve the whole social security thing.

[starkravingsane.livejournal.com]

I echo the sentiments above (though you probably guessed that).
At the same time, I'm not too worried. It's not being suspended for *that* long (really, 10 days?), and I'm guessing that the program won't be overturned in that short space of time.
And yes, the sooner after you hit puberty you know how to put on a condom, the better.