Sex education in ireland

Sex? No thank you, we're Irish.

Was in a school in waterford, and in 5th year they taught us about STI's. A few of my friends and me missed the class, due to extra-curricdular activities with the school, and we werent told of it until that afternoon, so didnt have much of a choice. They told us we could do it in 6th year, and then the same thing happened again. When I questioned my religion teacher about it at the time, I was sent to the principals office for inappropriate discussions in the classroom.

Bull****.

I learned about sex age 15 from a Tommy Tiernan show.

All the sex ed I remember from school was being advised by the teacher to 'wash your front bottom as well as your back bottom' and reading Girl Talk.

Girl Talk, what a crappy book.

LC2010HIS wrote: »

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2010/0514/breaking56.html

not shocked at all . Found sex ed in school over the years completely useless... its a joke ! They were telling us about periods at ages 17-18 :rolleyes:
What ye think of this?

If you were educated about sex you might engage in some resulting in less of these threads. 2 thumbs up for sex education.

I got sex ed in 6th class and 1st year. Mostly about genitalia and periods. Got a pregnancy talk in 4th year - one girl was already knocked up. :rolleyes: In 6th year one forward thinking young teacher taught us about STIs and contraception even though we wear a Catholic nun school... But I learned most sex ed from girl's magazines.

LC2010HIS wrote: »

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2010/0514/breaking56.html

not shocked at all . Found sex ed in school over the years completely useless... its a joke ! They were telling us about periods at ages 17-18 :rolleyes:
What ye think of this?

What the hell is a period?

parker kent wrote: »

We had it in 5th class and 6th class in primary school. The teacher did a great job looking back on it now.

Looking at what , exactly?:eek:

Nearly three-quarters of Irish secondary school pupils received no sex education classes last year, according to a survey published today.

Well if you look at it, only a fifth of all secondary students will sit the leaving cert this year.

And I suppose only one SIXTH of national schools students were taught their ABC's

Keep on mashing those numbers boys.

Most of of the sex education I got was from girl's magazines like mizz or bliss. They were absolute saviours. Sex ed didn't start until secondary school when we were about fifteen or sixteen, which was far too little too late by then. To be honest I don't blame the education system, it's the parent's responsibility to educate their children on sex and reproduction. I don't see why people are always looking to schools for this.

I recently heard a mother giving out about the sex education her fourteen year old daughter was learning in school, she complained that they were taking it 'too far' and that is was unnecessarily thorough. Why do people feel that young people can know 'too much.' In my opinion with every question a child asks it's up to the parent to answer honestly. If this means learning about sex at five then so be it.

People are still stuck with the old mentality that the more a person knows about sex the more they are likely to engage in it. Has history taught us nothing? :mad: