On Sat, 08 Feb 2014 14:02:49 -0500, "F.O.A.D." wrote:

On 2/8/14, 1:29 PM, Poco Loco wrote:
On Sat, 08 Feb 2014 13:10:12 -0500, Wayne.B wrote:

On Sat, 08 Feb 2014 11:53:10 -0500, Poco Loco
wrote:

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I think most kids are well aware already. Preaching abstinence is
mostly to make the parents feel good. The kids are under tremendous
biological and social pressure and already know waaay more than we
think they should.

I would think some 4th or 5th graders might not be as 'well aware' as you suppose.

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Perhaps but I think you'd be surprised. A lot of these kids ride the
school bus and/or have older friends/cousins/brothers/sisters, etc.

I still maintain that teaching "abstinence" is mostly a feel good
thing for adults.

Here they ride elementary school buses until middle school, then middle school buses, and then high
school buses, for those few who don't have cars.



In I think the "better times" when I was in public school, I walked
three long blocks to elementary school, then four blocks to junior high.
We had sidewalks!

For high school, most of us took the buses, because the public high
school that served our part of the city was about five miles away. But
they weren't school buses...the board of education contracted with the
local transit company, which provided regular "city buses." We'd buy a
month's worth of bus tickets, which cost 7-/2 cents to ride each way,
and the drivers were instructed to allow any kid on the bus, whether or
not he or she had a bus ticket. There were "late buses" too, for kids
involved in afterschool activities.

Pretty decent school lunches in junior high for about a quarter. At high
school, they were 35 cents but the quality went way way down. Never
could figure out why.

In our group, we had one guy walk off the high school campus every
couple of days to pick up a bunch of Italian subs from a market about a
block away. It was "strictly forbidden" to do that, but...the assistant
principal, a Mr. Kennedy, who was responsible for school discipline,
would often be at the grocery to buy his lunch. We'd all pretend we
didn't see each other. Mr. Kennedy didn't like the cafeteria food very
much, either.

Oh, sex. In high school, everyone I knew practiced "safe" sex, and, as
far as I know, there were no pregnancies among our graduating class.

It's good to know that no one you knew practiced abstinence and were 100% lucky.