Condoms slide at school for 13 tops

[tenlittlecygnets]

Ds is Year 9. Today in form time, the teacher showed them a slide from a company that promoted condoms for 13yos to 15yos.

I'm a bit shocked tbh.

Surely not at 13???!

They discussed abusive relationships in PHSE the previous day...

What would you think?

Title should say 13-year-olds 🙄

I don’t get it, are you shocked your teenagers were taught about proper contraception or have I missed something?

I’d think it extremely sensible, though I’d share the family planning page where they can get them for free. I always tell students that sex under 16 is illegal but they need to know before hand. You are naive if you think no year 9’s are having sex.

What d'you fear is going to happen if he learns about condoms earlier rather than later?

I think there will be some teenagers who may be experimenting at that age. It is better for them to have the knowledge to be sexually active in a safe way, rather than for them to get to the age where they feel it’s right for them and everything they’ve learnt is from TV, YouTube or their mates.

I taught an entire lesson on contraceptives to my year 8s this week. What exactly are you concerned about, that the children having sex (and there will be a couple) are aware of how to do so safely?

Better a condom than a baby, I would think. In an ideal world it wouldn't be necessary, but the reality is that some children will have sex at this age.

Girl in year 10 at my son's school was pregnant, the father was a year 9 boy. They didn't use condoms.

What do you mean the company promoted condoms for 13-15 year olds? As in, ‘hey, try our new range that are made especially with 13 year olds in line!’???

Or was it a sex education talk about contraception?

They were shown a slide about condoms? Not given condoms and told to go use them

From the title of the thread at first I thought it was some kind of actual slide like a water slide or something made out of condoms

But I’m assuming it was a sex education lesson slide presentation? If so I think at that age they do need to be taught about contraception.

Yeah, thanks all.

It was a slide projected onto the whiteboard, no comment at all from teacher, advertising condoms for 13-year-olds to 15-year-olds.

Fair enough for 15yos. Not for 13yos. Really.

And in registration. No context or discussion around it eg in PHSE.

Mine is year 8 and was shown the consent and tea drinking YouTube video.

Very happy they did, get the information in them early! DD is NOT going to listen to me due to the cringiness

Advertising? Or educating?

I thought you meant a playground slide too. With a big advert down the side for adolescent condoms.

A regular adult condom may not fit a not fully grown 13-15 year old, so making them in smaller sizes is actually a really good idea. So many condoms are ineffective because they aren’t used properly or don’t fit properly.
If you think year nines being aware of sex and aware of sex happening in their age range, then you’re either very sheltered or very prudish.

@tenlittlecygnets

Yeah, thanks all.

It was a slide projected onto the whiteboard, no comment at all from teacher, advertising condoms for 13-year-olds to 15-year-olds.

Fair enough for 15yos. Not for 13yos. Really.

Yeah, sure. The teacher said nothing, just started advertising condoms

Don’t take your 13yos word for anything that happens in school.

@tenlittlecygnets

Yeah, thanks all.

It was a slide projected onto the whiteboard, no comment at all from teacher, advertising condoms for 13-year-olds to 15-year-olds.

Fair enough for 15yos. Not for 13yos. Really.

It's targeting that age group for a reason OP

Don't teenagers need to know about contraception before they have sex.

13 sounds about right.

15 is definitely too late.

@tenlittlecygnets

Yeah, thanks all.

It was a slide projected onto the whiteboard, no comment at all from teacher, advertising condoms for 13-year-olds to 15-year-olds.

Fair enough for 15yos. Not for 13yos. Really.

Well I lost my virginity at 14. As did all of my group of friends, and a good 50% of my year (girls school). So 15 would have been a bit late for us. Far better to let teenagers know the options sooner. I went on the Pill at 14, and the family planning clinic gave out condoms freely. I was there showing that I was trying to be responsible, so they encouraged that responsibility as they clearly knew that trying to dissuade teenagers who were determined to have sex was a fools errand.

I agree with PP that there's more to this story than you're hearing.

And in registration. No context or discussion around it eg in PHSE.

I'm pretty sure from what you say that they are delivering at least some of the PSHE Y9 curriculum in tutor time. They have to be taught about contraception and abusive relationships, it's the law. They will have covered contraception in Y6 and Y7.

I'd be amazed if the form tutor was trying to teach these topics purely through PowerPoint slides and mime. Pretty certain context and discussion will have been there- tell DS to pay more attention in future.

@tenlittlecygnets

"Advertising?"

please explain.

I have no problem with sex education at school for pubescent kids, but a company promoting condoms for 13 to 15 year old is essentially trying to monetise statutory rape, no?

@tenlittlecygnets

Yeah, thanks all.

It was a slide projected onto the whiteboard, no comment at all from teacher, advertising condoms for 13-year-olds to 15-year-olds.

Fair enough for 15yos. Not for 13yos. Really.

A 12 year old girl was pregnant in my school, so 13 is not too young. Of course MOST 13 year olds won't be having sex, but some will - and some not out of choice, either- so it's better to educate children from a younger age.

@Kaiserin

I have no problem with sex education at school for pubescent kids, but a company promoting condoms for 13 to 15 year old is essentially trying to monetise statutory rape, no?

So is this company producing condoms solely for us by 13-15 year olds? How does that work? What is this company?