"Horribly embarrassing" is right! Once a year staring in 6th grade the girls
would be dragged off to a "special assembly" to view the same low-budget,
outdated film about periods. And some boy would always make some smart
remark as we left the classroom, like the one who confidently explained to
his fellows that it was "all about minestrone."
Candice
on 3/2/01 8:22 PM, Matthew Francis at [log in to unmask]
wrote:
> Randolph writes:
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> I was going to class one morning and a group of juniors were
> waiting outside the neighbouring room. Then there was announcement that they
> had to go somewhere else as nurse so-and-so was going to talk to them. "Not
> sex _again_!" they moaned.
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> A great line, but I can see their point of view. Sex education at school was
> horribly embarrassing, and boring. We had a course of three lessons from a
> doctor. When we arrived for lesson 3, he started doing lesson 2 all over
> again. Someone put his hand up, but was told not to interrupt, so we got the
> whole lesson for the second time, AND got in trouble for not telling him. It
> was actually the one with all the action in (Lesson 1 was mostly maps, and
> lesson 3 was pregnancy and what were still then referred to as 'sexual
> perversions') but it didn't get better with repetition, unlike the real
> thing.
>
> Best wishes
>
> Matthew
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