Do You Remember Health Class?- Page 3

[Anakela]

Posted: 3/14/06 at 2:55am

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

Ok that was the funniest thing evah!

We got something similar, but without the clay, and less "OMG don't have the sex ever!!" hysteria- did anyone else's sex ed have one of those diagrams, looks like a family tree, and it was all about how: "see, when you have sex with one person, you don't just have sex with that person, but with every person that person ever had sex with, and every person those people ever had sex with..." re: diseases and such, and so there was the chart with arrows pointing to the hundreds of people you have sex with when you have sex with that one person.

Ours wasn't abstinence-only, though- we practiced putting condoms on these plastic tube things, etc. But those hundreds of people on that chart stays with me to this day!

OH, I just remembered- did anyone else's health class have these foam-type breast things, where a 'lump' (I think it was clay?) was hidden in the breast, and so you learned how to do a self-breast exam and find the lump in the breast? Yeah- my health classes covered it all!

Posted: 3/14/06 at 3:22am

I had health in 5th-8th grade for the last two weeks of every year! then required Health freshman year, and required health 2 in my senior year. I have learned about every STD know to man just about. I am still poorly educated. All I really remember is my friend Jeff taking the tests first and passing his test around the circle in the back corner of the room. I still claim that he's the reason I passed that class with an A. I hated watching all of the corny movies! "Your body, what's happening." TORTURE thats what it was! but overall some good times.
~~EM~~

[ihearttheatre]

Posted: 3/14/06 at 6:56am

The first time we had health, in 4th grade, we were separated by gender and watched corny movies. Afterwards, the nurse came in and answered questions.
At some point, she whipped out a tampon. She proceeded to show us how it worked by shooting it off upwards like a rocket. It nearly hit the ceiling. I was terrified.


In high school it's required every year for 4 weeks as part of Phys Ed class. My current teacher is an ultra-conservative, very masculine-looking woman. It's wayy fun.