Mississippi, a red state, tossed s x education in schools

They are dealing with a rampart std epidemic called congenital syphilis. Since removing education they have seen a 1000% of cases.

Basically we're a petri dish thanks to repubs... the rise of measles, stds, tuberculosis lololol

Ah repubs thanks for this, sarcastically of course 🙏

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swirlie · 31-35

In Scandinavian countries where I've participated in numerous student exchange programs since my adolescent days while being of that same culture myself, sex education in school curriculums in every Scandinavian country begins in grade one. This entry level brings understanding of how and why bees pollinate flowers, etc.

Where one's sex education terminates is at high school graduation, after having spent 4 years learning how the human species evolves over time, how condoms prevented most of it, while using pictures to speak a thousand words for those who don't understand the concept of 'sport sex' with consequences.

Sex ed is a compulsory subject in all Scandinavian high schools, the high priority for this being the educated prevention of teen pregnancies, versus the uneducated version of getting pregnant at 13 and being told by your government that you'll go straight to hell if you get an abortion.

So the child is raised in western culture by the girl's western-educated parents as the baby's young mom gets ready to start her first year of high school, thankful at last that she won't have to buy crayons and bottles of glue anymore!

The sex ed curriculum across North America and Great Britain is abysmal at best, but now to hear that some self-inspired, back-woods place like Mississippi is removing sex ed completely from it's school curriculum is one step closer to America turning itself into the Land of Hillbillies, where everyone has a white picket fence around their mobile home and a pickup truck parked in the driveway while using borrowed money to live rich and 'have it all'!

Alas, the American Dream comes true!

SunshineGirl · 36-40, F

@swirlie National curriculum content for sex education in the UK is excellent . . and I say that as the mother of a 14 year old. It is not so excellent when one of our semi-independent "academy" schools chooses to opt out of that curriculum on the grounds of religious ethos, or parents interfere so much that the school gives up on a critically important subject.

swirlie · 31-35

@SunshineGirl
In other words, academy schools and random parent interferences carry enough weight in UK that they can actually cause schools to give up on critically important subject matter. That's not exactly what I'd call an excellent National curriculum if sex ed can be modified that easily to suit some religious ethos.

SatanBurger · 36-40, F

@swirlie @SunshineGirl I think that certain issues like allergies, specific diets, certain aspects of religion should be respected, I think that parents need to have very little control over school curriculum though. That's the one subject I'm authoritarian on is that parents have too much control and not every parent knows what's good for them.

swirlie · 31-35

@SatanBurger
My parents are Scandinavian who immigrated to Canada as newlywed teenagers, shortly after which my sisters and I were born in Canada. I went to school in Canada where I attended the public school system, except my sex education was home-schooled to my sisters and I by our mom at home at our kitchen table from the time we were 11 years old until we all graduated high school.

The reason she home-schooled us with the aid of her old high school sex-ed manuals which were issued to her in Sweden at the beginning of her first year of high school over there, was because no such manuals existed in Canada. People in Canada were SO conservative-minded about their sons and daughters finding out what condoms were really for, that sex ed became an optional subject in the Canadian high school curriculum and remains so.

SunshineGirl · 36-40, F

@SatanBurger Sex education is a health imperative, not a question of moral preference. While adults are entitled to make their own decisions about what they do or do not listen to, or what vaccines and other drugs they accept, that choice should not be allowed to compromise the health and safety of minors. The social and economic costs of unplanned teenage pregnancies are immense, but easily avoidable.

SunshineGirl · 36-40, F

@swirlie You can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink . . I was pointing out a small number of instances where unfortunately the conservative doctrine of "consumer choice" frustrates social harmony and progress.

I went to school in the 1990s. Even though it was theoretically illegal for teachers to "promote" homosexuality in the classroom (thanks to the Thatcher regime), I still received a pretty liberal and practical sex education. Teenage pregnancy rates in the UK are much lower than in America.

swirlie · 31-35

@SunshineGirl

I was pointing out a small number of instances where unfortunately the conservative doctrine of "consumer choice" frustrates social harmony and progress.

...and in so doing, you made it clear that a small number of right-wing fanatics can easily carry enough sway in your culture to disrupt the status quo of a firmly establish liberal doctrine of sex education for everyone. That would tell me that either the Conservatives are very strong in your culture or the liberals are very weak, no different than the trending political culture in the USA. 🌊🐎

SunshineGirl · 36-40, F

@swirlie I think you have lost track of the original point.

swirlie · 31-35

@SunshineGirl
Actually, I think you've lost track of what I was saying in my original post. Either give up now or review everything previously written and start over with a new perspective on sex education.