Do You Remember Health Class?- Page 2

[The Grovers Corners Yenta2]

Posted: 1/30/06 at 10:02pm

You are right DollyPop .....his name was Joe. He was also a Phys Ed teacher and wrestling coach. I had a crush on him when I was a freshman.

[Millie42]

Posted: 1/30/06 at 10:03pm

From what I recall, we only had a couple weeks of Health in 6th grade. The only thing I remember was a movie about Karen Carpenter and her eating disorder. The last frame of her running up the stairs froze and then the screen said something like "Karen died that night." Uplifting.

Our Health teacher in 7th and 8th grade was an awesome lady, though. She was very upfront but sweet. Looks like I was lucky in that respect.

You guys are reminding me of the sex ed class from Mean Girls:
"At your age, you're going to have a lot of urges. You're going to want to take off your clothes, and touch each other. But if you do touch each other, you *will* get Chlamydia... and die."

[SweetQintheLights]

Posted: 1/30/06 at 10:03pm

"In our health class, the girls learned about their periods. "

That was on 1 day of health in 5th grade. They were talking about how it's normal to have your period and don't be afraid to tell someone. This is while everyone is sitting there bored out of their mind because most of them already got it.

There was this one time the nurse wanted to show how much blood we actually lose because supposedly back in the day, people would worry they would bleed to death from their period.

So, she took a spoon and put as much ketsup on it as we 'supposedly' bleed.

*gags*

[Marlene]

Posted: 1/30/06 at 10:04pm

Ahhh got to looove mean girls!

[Musical_nerd]

Posted: 1/30/06 at 10:06pm

SweetQ.. that just made me gag.

[The Grovers Corners Yenta2]

Posted: 1/30/06 at 10:17pm

And that hunky Health teacher with the bulging biceps was also a life guard at the beach in the summers. I faked drowning several times. My, it's getting awfully hot in here..................

[Jess1483]

Posted: 1/30/06 at 10:47pm

Ah, health class.
I remember my health teacher in high school telling us that if our urine looked like apple juice, then we were dehydrated...and she decided it was necessary to show us a bottle of apple juice--because, of course, none of us knew what it looked like. Luckily, I was never a fan.
In middle school we watched a videw where the girl told her mom she got her period and her mom's reaction was "let's go out for ice cream!" Well, I got my period, and I didn't get any ice cream. I blame my teacher for the disappointment that followed...

[OddExoticCreature]

Posted: 1/31/06 at 12:12am

I just remember high school health class being really stupid, and I had a lot more 'wtf?' moments in junior high health.

I remember one time the teacher was talking about sex and how when the penis enters the vagina for the first time the hymen is broken...but sometimes a girl's hymen can be broken by other things. She began listing them off, including horseback riding. I turned to a friend of mine who also rode horses and we stared at each other in horror like "HOW CAN THIS BE?!?!" oh MAN...that's funny in retrospect.

Oh in high school health I remember some specialist came in to talk about sex and it was all pro-abstinence and she took clay of different colors and handed them out, and then had the kids mush them together and was like, "SEE! THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU HAVE SEX! YOU MIX AND NO MATTER HOW HARD YOU TRY YOU CAN'T GET THE OTHER PIECES OUT, THEY ARE FOREVER WITH YOU! SO SAVE YOURSELF FOR JUST ONE OTHER BALL OF CLAY! ABSTAIN!" and I thought it was the most ludacris example ever and vowed never again to give a crap about my public school education. LOL

Updated On: 1/31/06 at 12:12 AM

[Dollypop]

Posted: 1/31/06 at 5:39am

Calm down Yenta. I met Joe at one of the local outlet centers recently. He's lost his looks.

[KelRel]

Posted: 1/31/06 at 11:42am

SweetQ, we had to watch those driver's ed videos too. I remember one of them had this guy who literally shattered his skull on the pavement and the paramedics were walking around with a garbage bag picking up pieces of his brain. They didn't edit anything out and I almost threw up in class. After that I would just stare at my desk while the played videos. It was awful!

[The Grovers Corners Yenta2]

Posted: 1/31/06 at 6:54pm

So tell me DollyPop, since he's lost his looks does that mean he's gained weight, gone bald......please tell me me the details. Didn't you go to High School with him?

[Dollypop]

Posted: 1/31/06 at 8:00pm

He's bald and flaccid. I went to high school with him but he had a different last name then.

[The Grovers Corners Yenta2]

Posted: 1/31/06 at 8:07pm

Glad to see that all healthy living and exercise finally caught up with him! After all, not evryone can be a perfect physical specimen like you are. I am really getting satisfaction from him losing his good looks and muscles. Damned jock.

[zepka102]

Posted: 1/31/06 at 8:13pm

i taught health class today. they just watched the old afterschool special about AIDS where a whole town turns against a teen who has it and his friend has to change his understanding to defend him. you know, you hear "that's what friends are for" every few minutes...

[NYadgal]

Posted: 1/31/06 at 8:27pm

All the girls had to watch the movie "Molly Grows Up".

The part where her Dad told her that she was no longer his little girl made me cry.

Then we got big blue Kotex boxes to take home. Kind of like a parting gift...

I was in 5th grade. I still remember that day.

[Plum]

Posted: 1/31/06 at 8:52pm

5th grade seems a bit early for everyone to have gotten their periods. But yeah, that was the year our school nurse came in for a day to teach us the basics of puberty- secondary sexual characteristics (though they weren't called that), the soon-to-come need to shave and use deodorant (a stick was passed around as an example), and yes, periods, and how we should probably stick to pads rather than tampons at our age. o_O

The big health class came in middle school, and the teacher was great, a salty lady who wasn't in the least embarassed and made us all memorize every type of contraceptive and its rate of success. We also had a "question box" where you could anonymously slip in a question about sex and have it answered the next week.

Our drug education came from DARE in elementary and middle school. I think it's fair to say that everything I knew about drugs at the time, I learned from DARE. :P

[ikmbway]

Posted: 1/31/06 at 9:30pm

I "graduated" DARE last year but they just keep bringing it back each year! Is yours taught by the police officers?

Today was my last day of health for the year. We watched a Bug's Life. It was better then the other videos we watched. And it is always fun seeing what those kids in the out dated videos wear. Even in middle school we learned about losing our virginity and how we should wait til we are ready and all that stuff. Also there were the beautiful word searches. Everyone just saying out loud did you find "insert word here" yet? And it was funny when we had no idea what it was and we just called them out.

[Plum]

Posted: 1/31/06 at 9:38pm

Yep, it was taught by cops. For graduation there was a speech-writing contest. I wrote about how DARE might not be 100% effective in preventing drug use, and for some reason I didn't win. Hm.

[ikmbway]

Posted: 1/31/06 at 9:41pm

Did you have to make a poster too?? I did that and I won a $20 gift certificate to my mall. And do you get like stuffed animals of the mascot and all that?

[LaVieHilary]

Posted: 1/31/06 at 9:44pm

I loved Health before it became a graded subject. In 5th grade I remember watching the "girl" video and seriously dreading the say i would get my period.

[guitargeek0624]

Posted: 1/31/06 at 10:09pm

Once in health, a boy had to draw a diagram of how to put on an athletic cup on the board. He drew it VERY big, and my teacher said, "He wishes it was that big."

Good times, good times.

[SweetQintheLights]

Posted: 3/14/06 at 1:16am

Would creating something like this help at all?

[Link Larkin Wanabe]

Posted: 3/14/06 at 1:20am

Hah...in ours we had to each pick a form of contraception or birth control and present it to the class. I had to show the class how to put in a female condom on a seethrough, plastuc vagina. But I dropped it and actually blurted with words: "F**k, I broke the vagina!" (sadly that wasn't the onl time I have said that :P)

Also the guy who was presenting abstinence had a great line:
"Pros: You don't get screwed
Cons: You don't get screwed"
He was the most serious, deadpan person, so it was hilarious.

hah...then we broke our teacher's nose with a frisbee and she left the school for good, but that is a whole other story. Gotta love public high schools.

Akiva

[SweetQintheLights]

Posted: 3/14/06 at 1:23am

We got to pick what we wanted to present out birth contol topic on. My teacher suggested that we pick the topic we think is the best use for birth control. I'm the only one who picked abstinence. haha

[Rose_MacShane]

Posted: 3/14/06 at 1:31am

I don't remember anything about the sex ed class we took in 5th grade except that we were subjected to embarassingly old videos, one of which starred one of the girls in the movie of "Annie."
I took a health class in high school (it was either that or gym), but it dealt mostly with exercise and nutrition. I don't think sex factored into it at all.