Quote Originally Posted by wango View Post
At 13 or 14, I found their knowledge and awareness about sex (like most things) is all over the place. Although I don’t completely disagree with you and have never discussed this with any students & have no definitive idea, it wouldn’t surprise me at all if some honestly don’t know from some of the questions I have gotten.

Different school districts handle sex Ed differently in what they do and don’t allowed taught. Ours is conservative. For instance in some districts kids learn how to open condom packages and put them on a “similar shaped object”. We didn’t. Our teachers wouldn’t dare discuss masturbation even if a kid had a sincere and genuine question. I honestly can’t see any teacher in their right mind discussing how to do it though.

But then again, you would think by now male teachers, coaches, administrators would know better to not get involved with female students. It’s also happened with female teachers and male students. But it happens in our district almost every other year. It’s a profession that has so many land mines you can step on either on purpose or by accident, it’s no wonder why it’s tough to get decent teachers.
I don't think kids should be taught to masturbate at all. Like I said, that's something you sort of figure out on your own. And if the kids really don't know, then that's not such a bad idea too. The world existed for thousands of years before kids were ever taught to do the 5-knuckle-shuffle in school. I think they'd be fine if they still weren't taught that.

Perverts get in to the teaching profession all the time. I don't have any solution to fixing that, but there needs to be better ways to screen for them. But the problem is getting worse every year.

My view on sex education is that it is the parents' job to teach their kids about it for the most part. The education system should ONLY be teaching it, when the kids are at a age where they're mature enough to talk about the biological aspect to it. It certainly shouldn't be the education system's job to teach acceptance of people's preference or that any sort of "behavior" is normal or quite frankly any agenda. Those aspects are the jobs of parents and religious institutions. They also shouldn't be teaching how to put a condom on.