Homosexuality in School Curriculum

Well my 8th grade teacher made it clear that STDs could be spread from one gender to another or within the genders, so even if you can't get each other pregnant, there's still reason to use protection.

Also, there was a whole unit about homosexuality in one of my classes, but that was a human sexuality class - You guys might remember my questionnaire; I got an A on that paper anyways. Thank you guys. ^^

 

Well this is Uruguay, so... NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO NEVER. There was a little sex ed, but it was always straight-oriented.

 

I went to a Christian (Anglican) school, and in Sex-Ed we were taught about homosexuality - that it wasn't the choice of the person who they were attracted to, etc.

The Sex-Ed teacher was great, her best friend was lesbian and she was very clear and accurate in what she said, which hopefully helped some of the more homophobic people I remember being in my class.

 

I don't remember my school ever mentioning homosexuality.
Maybe in Health class,but I can't remember.

 

Well we didn't talk about it in health but my friends and I have spoken about it a couple of times.

 

I was taught a little, if any. More should be taught.

 

I don't think there was anything taught about homosexuality in our curriculum. The main emphasis was definitely on contraception.

Last year, however, a LOT of chicks in our year were getting pregnant, so the school got some speaker in to 'refresh' our knowledge of sex ed. He spoke about homosexuality, and it was really good, in my opinion he said everything 'right' (like about how people shouldn't be labelled, etc.) .

But still, that was 2007, when I was in my final year of high school. It would've been a lot more helpful earlier on, really.

 

well.in health class in 10th grade(last year).....the teacher said that all bisexual ppl keep it secret and gay ppl will automatically tell u theyre gay...i was like "Oh..ya...reallly..so..then...why are alot of us having trouble coming out?"
and "i dont think ALL bisexual ppl keep it secret either"....i basically hated that part of that class...it was so...UGH!...but ya..besides that..no..it was never mentioned..(i live in southern alabama...christian dominated town...nothing against christians..i mostly am one..i just dont beleive in the bible...because ppl usually undertand it wrong and cause innocent ppl pain..no offense to anybody)but ya...so it might as well just be a christian school....

 

I can't really say for sure but from my memory i can't remember any of my teachers even mentioning gay people and if they did it definitly wasn't part of the Curriculum. I got most of my information from my peers which was very skewed and in many cases anti-gay.

 

hmm...going back some number of years but from what I remember there was some brief overview of homesexuality, like maybe half an hour in one session of health class.

 

Well I didn't really learn anything about it, nothing saying it was okay just mainly that it existed. I had a really nice teacher for Re last year (At our school Personal Development "Sex Ed" is taught by the Re teachers ) She said it's not a choice b/c she knows people who "acted gay" from a young age. She said it was okay but still it is a bit un-educated and I am sad that we didn't learn that it was "Okay" and "Normal" that would of really helped me.

 

Ummm...what are "erotic techniques" in relation to educating others about homosexuality?

 

I wish they did at my school

Maybe if i one day go into politics, i'd try and make it happen but hopefully common sense will prevail before that and we will have sexuallity discussed in sex ed classes.

 

That's exactly what i'm getting at. Why do these conservative groups argue teaching tolerance equates to "erotic techniques"?

 

i have, in RE. basically, "buddhists usually don't mind gay people but traditional ones sometimes do, and learn these bible quotes about it for the exam". nothing meaningful.