Body parts and functions aren't creepy. Dispelling shame around stuff that isn't shameful is appropriate.

I, nor my fellow LGBT community members, are 'creepy shit' to learn about.

On another note, if you think by 12th grade your teenager hasn't seen more sexual nudity than a human being would ever see in their entire lifetime 100 years ago, I've a got a bridge to sell you. Proper sex education is extremely important for dozens of reasons. If you don't want your kid learning about their body, opt out. Don't take away education from other parents who do want informed children capable of safely entering the adult world.

I respectfully disagree with you. I would have appreciated these classes as opposed to the purity culture I was exposed to in my fundamentalist baptist upbringing.

Then homeschool and keep your religious shit out of public schools. I wish you were as educated on the issue as you are afraid of things you don't understand.

Chances are that Friends Central's curriculum is way, way less creepy than the article implies. And if your kids are little, obviously much of what the article described is of course not age-appropriate for them. I understand why you would have that gut reaction.

But by the time your kids are teenagers, it really is best for them to get an accurate understanding of how their body works, and how the bodies of the opposite sex work - not necessairily in the detail the article implies, but the basic topics should be covered.

Even if your kids opt not to be sexually active until marriage, perhaps some years after high school, they still need to know the basics as teens. And learning the basics in high school will prepare them for later in life when they do become sexually active.

The parents at Friends Central are paying $43,900 a year for their high schoolers to attend. If they don't like the sex ed curriculum, they can opt their kids out. Or they can withdraw their kids and have them attend any one of the many private schools in the Main Line area where Friends Central is located, or they can choose to home educate their kids, or hire a private tutor to educate them, or enroll them in one of the many public cyber-charter schools in Pennsylvania, or they can enroll them in the local public school (and save $43,900 a year!)

Private schools can only survive when they are very responsive to the concerns of parents. At $43,900 a year, they know the parents can take their money elsewhere. If the curriculum is out of line, or actually creepy, you can bet that the parents will let the admin know and the admin will take appropriate steps to keep the parents happy.

I'm sorry you feel that body-positive sex education is creepy but you as a parent could opt out. Don't take that choice from everyone else.

The class was for 11th and 12th grade though. Those students are 1-2 years shy of not needing mommy and daddy's permission for things, if they aren't 18 already.

>If you had children, you would understand why parents don’t want their children hearing this creepy shit. I wish you were as educated on the issue as you are passionate.

Hi, Have children. I want them to be educated on all of this. Goddess knows I wouldn't have made the mistakes I had if I had better sex education.

Hi, parent here.

This happened at a private school, was opt in and a waiver was required. You being poorly opinion is the issue here. You should probably be better educated and less passionate.

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Oh no! Not checks notes anatomically accurate sex education!

I have children, and you strangers claiming to want to protect them are the creepy ones.