Not at all. Thing is, I don’t care to have YOU decided what my kids’ sex education shall be, at all. Not because you don’t make some valid points there, and not even because we don’t probably agree at certain points - but because that’s not your job, and the points where we disagree are not yours to blow through just because you think it’s a swell idea. It’s simply not your call to make - even where we agree. I don’t get to tell you how to raise your kids, and vice versa.
What happened was that the school systems, which had exactly zero experience at teaching these course, because it had not been done before, had to design those courses pretty much out of thin air. (And my go at the old-style menstrual lectures was in the 60’s, so I was already long since a parent when you took those classes.) I remember all the arguments very well, since I had kids to be concerned about. They wondered and argued constantly about how far to go with it. The drivers for all that? Really, much less teen pregnancy than AIDS. (I went to a school called The Maternity Ward, and friends went to one called Herpes High. So. It’s not because I’m coming from a particular uptight place - actually, quite the opposite.) It’s not like we didn’t know, or weren’t active - but it was sstd’sthat was driving a lot more of it. Nobody knew how to cure AIDS or even herpes/
My position then was, and remains - far enough to let a kid open a dialog with their parents or head for a library if they want to know more. (And the library is what most of us did then, because…parents, ewwww!)
