From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!seismo!hao!larue
Newsgroups: net.singles
Title: sex ed in schools
Article-I.D.: hao.469
Posted: Tue Apr 19 09:20:21 1983
Received: Wed Apr 20 02:01:32 1983


     I grew up in small-town-Idaho (Buhl,Gooding,and others), and
     big-city-Oregon (Portland) in the 60's and 70's and did have
     some form of sex education in the schools. In 5th grade the
     girls were all shown a film about the technical details of
     "growing up", with a few subtle references to sex. The boys
     were also shown a film, but I don't know how detailed it was.
     ( At that age we didn't discuss such things in mixed company.)

     When I was a sophomore in high school in 1970 (Washington High
     in Portland...anyone else out there go to Washington?) I took
     the required PE/Health class. Part of the class was a few
     weeks on sex education. Our teacher was very open with us, showed
     us films (including one on teenage pregnancy) and brought in 
     some people from Planned Parenthood to talk to the class. From
     what I hear, this was relatively progressive for that time, 
     except for the fact that the class was not co-ed.

     ( I hope you all will forgive me for posting an article to net.singles..
     I am a married person. But the sex ed/birth control discussion is
     of interest to us married folks too.)