Sex Education at Govt Schools

pic by: www.memphisflyer.com

Experimenting with sex should be avoided and schools should encourage students to moralise instead of condimising.

The first question any teen would ask, why should I learn about sex in school with my peers? Sex education, which is a part of the Biology curriculum in schools; help children understand the importance of gaining knowledge about the subject.

Dateline Bangalore contacted Karnataka Public School principal Mrs. Manjit Kur said, “Sex education has been implemented at the school since it started in 2005 and their aim at the school is to teach the students morals and values about sex.” She further added that students should realise and differentiate between a proper and an intimate touch.

Kur said the students are taught about sex education through seminars, power point presentations, drama activities etc.

“We check personally on our students as there is attraction to the opposite sex which they call love, and we call it infatuation. We keep reminding and guiding the students and as the principal I  have one on one sessions with my students as this is a sensitive and delicate issue to deal with,” said Kur.

The school also tackles a student’s emotional, mental and logical state in all sectors of sex education.

Megha Soni, a 10^th Standard commerce student at Marais Public School in Guwahati, Assam, stated the school does not teach students sex education, and no school in Assam provides sex education.

Megha, expressed herself by saying, sex education should be taught at all schools in Assam.

Whilst Shreyas Kumar in the 7^th Standard from Prarthana Education Society said, “Sex education is taught from 7^th Standard as part of Biology. Teachers explain in class what is written in the textbook and request us to go back home and reread what we understood. The next day the teacher would check if we understood the work.”

He further stated that the school teaches them sex education at an early stage, so they are well educated and learn everything about sex.

Though for Shreyas, he feels it is to early to learn about sex in the 7^th Standard as some students get carried away, and forget to concentrate on schoolwork.

It has come under siege after the Delhi gang rape and murder of 23-year-old medical student. She was gang raped by six bus conductors while travelling back home from a movie with her boyfriend at night.