Work Stories from Teachers- Sex Ed Special

There were 400+ children on the playground, which was over a chain link fence from the main road. I'm REALLY glad it wasn't me who had to meet with those parents.

For those of you who don't know, TSS is a sometimes-fatal condition, which in about 50% of cases has been linked to misuse of tampons.

We know, sweetie. We know.

You get a fantastic poker face...

He was an only child raised by a single mum, so it's entirely likely he'd never seen a naked man, but that situation is reasonably common and we'd never had a reaction like that before!

Presumably for more practice.

But seriously, this was from my own sex ed when I was a teenager, and I'm at least 80% sure they were actual dildos.

Child logic: Seen mum shaving her body. She must be man-hairy unless she shaves. My fate is sealed.

She was a biology teacher. She said she needed it for an anatomy lesson...

Some of those videos are useful visual aids to explanations. Some of them are fucking hilarious. There's quite a bit of crossover.

When I mentioned this one to my partner he said "We've been doing it wrong ALL THESE YEARS?"

This was from someone I trained with, who had to bite back all manner of witty retorts that would have gotten him fired.

She really wasn't comfortable with it, but she told a friend and the friend blabbed.

The two most common questions. 1) No, pornography does not feature in our lesson plans; 2) This is the one subject where we actively try to dial back the "practical" approach.

This happens every year. It's terrible and hilarious.

It was good that he reacted to that scene with horror and disgust, but, parents, I can't stress this enough: FILM RATINGS ARE THERE FOR A REASON. YES, your 10-year-old may be mature enough for a 12-rated film, and YES, sometimes it's hard to see why films were rated so harshly, but FOR THE LOVE OF GOD CHECK BEFORE YOU WATCH THEM. You have NO IDEA how much damage you could do to that kid with a single film!

Their entire answer to our three-week, six-session program was "Once your periods start it means you can get pregnant."

I'd like to add that most parents who withdraw their children do a better job than this. But some of them do a really awful job, and the terrible thing is that we have no right to correct them until the child hits human reproduction in biology classes.

My school is happy to work with and support parents in explaining things to the girl when this happens, but I know a lot of schools can't/won't.

She didn't understand why everyone laughed.

He knew EXACTLY what he was doing. And his penis was stuck to someone else's work.

When the school's report came out, it mentioned the "fun, interactive" approach the school took to its teaching.

A common indicator of child sex abuse is age-inappropriate sexual knowledge/behaviour. Of course you use your judgement, but due to several unfortunate precedents we're bound by law to write down every single thing that could POSSIBLY be a concern to us at any time, no matter how trivial it may seem at the time. This is one of the most paperwork-heavy times of year for just that reason.