Young Turks: Middle School Sex Survey Sparks Outrage

[CherylK]

Run time: 04:26 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-kImHkxXkQ   Posted on YouTube: October 14, 2010 By YouTube Member: TheYoungTurks Views on YouTube: 15416   Posted on DU: October 15, 2010 By DU Member: CherylK Views on DU: 910

 
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/local-opinions/2010/10/sex_survey_for_dc_middle_schoo.html

[Shining Jack]

1. Some people are incredibly dumb.

"They're too young to be ask about that". Well they're old enough to have sex and risk pregnancy or getting HIV if they are not well informed.

[AlbertCat]

2. Eleven is "too young"?????

Pu-leeze!

Kids aren't stupid and they don't live in a bubble. Like she said...sex happens in the 6th grade. The 7th grade is where most boys' voices change and girls develop breasts....IOW... it's when those hormones start kicking in. Parents should be informing their kids before all that, not when it happens. And parents DON"T. I'm 53, and I'm STILL waiting for my dad to explain the facts of life to me. He was no prude either. He was a surgeon fer Christ' sake! My Mom, the head of nursing. Not one word to me or my sister. Now imagine if your parents are prudes or over-religious.

Parents wait for and even depend on schools to tell their kids things they are too afraid of to tell them, then get mad when they do. If you haven't told your kids about the dangers of sex (the real ones!) by the time they are eleven, you're not doing your job as parents.

Besides, kids learn and are influenced more by their outside environment than by anything that goes on at home. This is a scientific fact. The fact that kids of immigrants do not speak with the accents of their parents is one of the proofs of this that has been in plain view for centuries.

[Chakab]

3. I'm 30 and I'm still waiting for the "sex talk"

from my mother who's a doctor. All I ever got from my dad was "son, a lot of these girls have diseases, so wear a condom." I was 21 and a senior in college when he told me that.