I am a homeschooling mom...

[agilebrit]

And I will not wank. No, I won't. Not there, anyway. Eh. *grabs a tissue and cleans up* Seriously, I couldn't let that go.

However, all you have to do is look at the "quality" of fic at FFN to see the sort of "education" that public schools are churning out. Semi-literate snowflakes who bristle at the merest hint of criticism? Pretty much.

Yeah, not in my house. Da Boy already gets corrected if he doesn't capitalize "I" or the word at the start of a sentence, and he's seven. And I don't think I'm stunting his creativity.

Comments

[upstart-crow.livejournal.com]

Well, my education in 1995 was abstinence-only, so I only have that to go on from personal experience.

IT's definitely good to teach them that it's a dumb idea (a dumb idea and a really awful choice though, not that they're somehow immoral or awful or bad if they make that choice - and especially not if they get pregnant or an STD because a fellow student rapes them - because that creates a ton of other problems).

I don't see how stressing abstinence while teaching students how to be safe if they don't remain abstinent is a conflict, though. Especially if you tell them that there may be consequences - such as disease and unwanted pregnancy - even if they try to be safe.

The thing is, teens have always had sex and I don't think the demographic ever will stop having sex no matter what adults do, say or offer. I do think the best way to stem it though is through a comprehensive sex-ed course and with parental involvement. Although, for kids who have parents who are unconcerned, or who even may have sexually abused their kids themselves, I don't know what you do there. :(

[agilebrit.livejournal.com]

Right with you on the rape issue. If I ever hear about Da Boy putting any kind of pressure on a girl, he'll be grounded until he's thirty. And I'll also be beating myself up, because if he does that, it'll mean that I didn't do my job as a parent to teach him that that sort of behavior is horrid.

Teen pregnancy rates have been dropping over the last few years. I don't know why, but I like to think that it might have something to do with abstinence education taking hold.