No. of Recommendations: 3
In AZ they passed "abstinence only" while 1poorkid was in school. I vehemently disagree with that position. So, when the sex-ed module came up, I actually sat in class (in the back) to see what information there were giving, and what information they were withholding. To my mild surprise, the teacher answered questions that would not have been consistent with abstinence-only.
Driving 1poorkid home from school afterwards, I got a LOT of questions. My philosophy is that if she's old enough to ask the question, she's old enough to hear the answer. I sort of had to put my brain in scientist mode and just answer the question, because it was weird talking about it with our daughter. She later told me that she became the "answer girl" at school. Her classmates would discuss stuff, and she would tell them what I told her. So a lot of kids got a lot more information than the school provided, but at least it was accurate information. (The kids are going to talk...you better hope at least one of them knows the actual facts about contraception -and efficacy-, or else your kid could "learn" something that is completely incorrect.) We took her out of district, so I drove her home every day. For about two weeks, the discussion in the car was the facts of life. The school covered the biology adequately. It was amazing the questions she came up with. But it was my job to answer them, not to squirm (like the question "why would a condom break"...yeah...had to suppress a lot of awkwardness to answer that one).
