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April 05, 2008
I'm too sexy for this catwalk
I'm reading articles about sex-education and the bill being proposed in Florida. Some of the myths that these poor kids raised under Bush's Stupid-Is-Better regime are being doomed to a life of teen pregnancies from which they will never recover.
It made me think back to the first time sex ed was taught in my grade school, and how they separated the boys from the girls but there was really just one of those thing expandable walls between us and them. I remember learning a lot, but the snickering was pretty bad, and at one point the teachers gave up and had everyone sing dumb songs (show tunes or ad jingles, I don't remember anymore) just to get it out of us. I kinda want to go back and laud those teachers - I can't imagine teaching a class full of 4th grade girls (or whatever age you are at then) about sex. Each of them did a great job preventing teenage pregnancy, I am completely convinced.
I also remember that after that point, there was one enterprising girl who would sell the boys a picture of "what it looked like" for a dollar, and I remember being pretty flummoxed by that, and mad that I didn't have ideas like that.
Posted by Heather at April 5, 2008 09:47 AM