one of my friends works with the group that put out that report (and my friend is chair of our religious studies dept, so at least the non-fundies aren't always in positions of power.) he forwarded it to a couple of us to make us laugh and cry at the same time. the one that really got me laughing, though, was the one where the district superintendent of a country school explained in print that they didn't teach about the details of how sexual intercourse works because all the farm kids knew it already from watching the farm animals. *FACEPALM*
oh, i didn't mean to say you exaggerate. you don't! he studies the problem, but doesn't actually work in public school or secondary school teaching. the fundies have it, pretty much. the amount of *unlearning* that has to go on once they hit college is frightening. the numbers that don't hit college because they got hit with consequences before getting to college is prob more frightening, just less visible to me.
the one that really got me laughing, though, was the one where the district superintendent of a country school explained in print that they didn't teach about the details of how sexual intercourse works because all the farm kids knew it already from watching the farm animals. *FACEPALM*
My school didn't explicitly teach to this standard, but honestly? The teachers were as embarrassed to talk about it as we were to hear about it, and I think it was as much because they presumed we'd already been sneaking our parents' porn as because we had farm animals, that never in my sex-ed did they ever _really_ explain the mechanics of heterosexual intercourse. I got most of the way through high school before I really understood how human penile erections worked-- I can remember making fluid dynamics jokes about it as a college frosh, but I'm pretty certain I'd only figured it out from other people's remarks in the preceeding year.
It wasn't that I got the information from observing animals as much as I got from hearing adults cracking jokes based on comparing farm animal copulation to human acts. I would prefer not to hear those jokes EVER AGAIN thanks.
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the one that really got me laughing, though, was the one where the district superintendent of a country school explained in print that they didn't teach about the details of how sexual intercourse works because all the farm kids knew it already from watching the farm animals. *FACEPALM*
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My school didn't explicitly teach to this standard, but honestly? The teachers were as embarrassed to talk about it as we were to hear about it, and I think it was as much because they presumed we'd already been sneaking our parents' porn as because we had farm animals, that never in my sex-ed did they ever _really_ explain the mechanics of heterosexual intercourse. I got most of the way through high school before I really understood how human penile erections worked-- I can remember making fluid dynamics jokes about it as a college frosh, but I'm pretty certain I'd only figured it out from other people's remarks in the preceeding year.
It wasn't that I got the information from observing animals as much as I got from hearing adults cracking jokes based on comparing farm animal copulation to human acts. I would prefer not to hear those jokes EVER AGAIN thanks.
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