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Since my last post was based on an anecdote that made me go "WTF?" and was specific to boys, I thought I'd follow it up with an anecdote I heard today from a female friend that really made me "WTF??" even harder.
Your eleven year old daughter has been covering sexual health in their PE/H/PD class (or whatever it's called locally). It's been a unit that covers the risk of pregnancy, STDs and at least the more common and well-known contraceptives (at least the pill and condoms, I'm not sure about others) fairly comprehensively (failure rates, the pros and cons [eg, can still get STDs on the pill, must take it every day, etc], accessibility, etc), as well as included a section on 'looking after a baby' - an egg or a sack of flour they have to pretend is their 'baby' for a week.
(Edited to make the context more clear. Note: This is derived from a story I was told from the Australian school system, which isn't abstince-only anywhere that I know of.)
When she comes home after doing the final exam for that unit, she tells you that one of the questions was (and this is the part that made my eyes widen until they almost popped out):
If a boy wanted to have sex with me, I would let him. True / False
How would you respond? Laugh it off? Talk to the teacher/school about it?
ETA: Presumably there was also some male-geared question in place of that one in the papers the boys got, but I don't know what it was.
Your eleven year old daughter has been covering sexual health in their PE/H/PD class (or whatever it's called locally). It's been a unit that covers the risk of pregnancy, STDs and at least the more common and well-known contraceptives (at least the pill and condoms, I'm not sure about others) fairly comprehensively (failure rates, the pros and cons [eg, can still get STDs on the pill, must take it every day, etc], accessibility, etc), as well as included a section on 'looking after a baby' - an egg or a sack of flour they have to pretend is their 'baby' for a week.
(Edited to make the context more clear. Note: This is derived from a story I was told from the Australian school system, which isn't abstince-only anywhere that I know of.)
When she comes home after doing the final exam for that unit, she tells you that one of the questions was (and this is the part that made my eyes widen until they almost popped out):
If a boy wanted to have sex with me, I would let him. True / False
How would you respond? Laugh it off? Talk to the teacher/school about it?
ETA: Presumably there was also some male-geared question in place of that one in the papers the boys got, but I don't know what it was.