AIBU to think sex education in schools is inadequate?

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my sons girlfriend said yesterday 'i prefer the pill to the injection (?) because it is natural and doesn't interfere with your body

She had no idea what it actually does. She is 18

I thought sex education was ment to better these days. I know in my day it was crap but I thought it would have improved?

Her naviety shocked me ...yes she is only 18 but seems to have left school with strange notions about sex and contraception

I know it's not just the schools job but it seems as many people leave school now without a clue about contraception or sex as they always did.

Surely in 2011 we should have a better approach to teaching our children 'the facts of life'

I teach my children about life and sex - that's my job.

I think it should be more like

My dsd is only 10 and we recently went to a sex ed evening for parents it was about what they plan to teach them. We were disgusted to find out that the teacher had been teaching the same stuff for 20 years in exactly the same way. they were just concentrating on painting a lovely picture of what happens if you have sex and the end result is a beautiful baby!! No wonder so many young girls get pregnant as they believe it will bring them a happily ever after! (ok not all young girls) im not surprised they think this way if that is what theyre shown at such an early stage. im afraid us parents are the way forward when it comes to sex ed.

T&T

because it's your family who give you self-respect and confidence

My father was emotionally abusive and abandoned my family at his earliest convenience, my mother actually had a favourite child (and no, it wasn't me) and my sister is a drug addict who tried to hurt me on more than one occassion.

I wonder where I got my self-respect and confidence?

Wish I knew what to say - I'm very sorry you had a tough childhood, sometimes having it hard makes us stronger. ( I can relate to that )

I so wish parents would stop expecting teachers to do their jobs for them

Yes we are aware that some kids come from difficult backgrounds but on the whole, parents have a job in educating their children too, not just teachers. They are taught reproduction and biology in science. They are taught about sexual relationships, myths, contraception etc through whatever PHSE provision the school has in place. Is it really too much to ask that parents meet us half way and have a hand in this too?

Sex and relationship education is delivered very well in some schools and badly in others. YABU it say it's poor in all schools. The PSHEE curriculum is non statutory and so the style and quality varies massively.

I don't know whether my school was unusual but I think we had far too much sex education, it got rather tiring after a while.

We had sex education lessons which handled the contraception bit, biology which covered the biology, personal and social for relationships (lets ignore the fact that this was taken by a teacher who was having an affair with another teacher!), RE covered moral issues around abortion/when does life start etc. And this was each and every year I was at secondary school.

Tbh the pill thing sounds more like general ignorance/disinterest than a lack of sex eduction

Haven't read thread.
Surely explaining the pill is exactly what the GP should do? When ever any of my regular medication gets changed slightly (chronic condition) it is explained to me what they are giving me and why and how it works. Equally new medication or temporary medication has been explained.

But YANBU re: sex ed at this young woman's school. young people adn children need to know about sex, relationships, respect and contraception. Unfortunately many parents still feel massively uncomfortable talking about this and either don't or leave it too late.