Survey reveals teachers favor formal sex education
NEW YORK (UPI)—In many places, bird-and-bee talk in the schools isn't nice, isn't proper and according to some critics, is a Communist plot.
In places where sex education courses have been okayed, course content dwells more on family life education than on anatomy.
And in those places where the heat of the debate most often
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grows molten—the superintendent's office—the leaning sentiment is F-O-R introducing formal sex education, according to an opinion poll survey of a sampling of the nation's 14,000 school administrators.
The poll shows that the recent growing and, in some cases, very vocal opposition to sex education in schools finds little sympathy among top schoolmen.
Granted anonymity in published results of the survey, the administrators participating in the poll conducted by "Nation's School." indicated—an impressive 70 per cent of them—that they believe some form of sex education ought to be offered by the schools.
But getting it approved, more and more means standing up to community, political and religious organizations opposing it, as trends of the last six months indicate.
Slightly less than two thirds of the schoolmen surveyed do not have sex education programs in their districts. And this is understandable. According to authorities the number of sex education programs has remained relatively stable since 1966.
Among those polled, a five per cent proportional sampling of the 14,000 in 50 states, 48 per cent noted a revival of opposition in their states to sex education.
This seems to fit in with an increasing number of published reports that focus on a full-scale siege against sex in the schools, the editors of "Nation's Schools" noted.
One fourth of polled schoolmen said parents are the greatest single roadblock to sex education courses.
Some attributed the opposition, in great part, to newer sex education programs. These offer more explicit information at an earlier age—often kindergarten and the primary grades.
Opposition comes from various groups, but a number of schoolmen felt the majority of opposing organizations have strong ties with the far right.
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