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KEN ANSTETT is pleased to be taking over from John Driscoll after purchasing the business and looks forward to carrying on the tradition of good service that John has provided for his customers over the years. Ken Anstett Trucking 887-6469 or 527-0846 Brussels Seaforth I 18--THEBRUSSELS POST MAY 40 1977 \Huron Bc5fE learns about sex education betweedmembers of the opposite sex and dating skills are discussed. The criterian and value for dating behavictiri is taught including necking and petting and their meaning, reasons and results. The advantages and disadvantages of going steady are discussed and along with the normal problems associated with maturing. • In Grade 8 the students concentrate on family relationships and their values and kick off the year by reviewing Grade , 7 material. From there they learn more of faith, security, emotional needs, defense mechanism personal involvement in family activities, responsibilities to families and what each can do to help produce a happy home life. Class Maturity Considered Mrs. Morton explained that the speed at which the class progresses is due largely to the -maturity of the class. She said some classes take a considerable amount of time learning the course basics while others grasp it quickly and want to discuss Mr. Henderson added that he was curious as to why children were coming home with questions , for their parents, claiming they were afraid to ask the questions at , school. Mrs. Morton said she felt the fact that kids were asking questions at home is healthy, pointing out that the interest is being cultured at, school. She said the "Backwoods" attitude surrounding sex suggesting that it is dirty and that use of the names of the body organs was dirty, is disappearing now. She conceded that the slang names for body organs was still taboo but added that when she was young, things of this nature were kept "under a bushel" and that now,they're treated as a fact of life. Clare Harman said he didn't feel that kids today were any roughter than they, were years ago and emphasized that any slang, word used to denote a body organ was certainly not as a result of health classes. Mr. Harman said the teachers merely attach 'proper names to body organs "calling a testicle a testicle." He said that perhaps the use was as prevalent then as it is now. Proper Term "Using the proper term in the classroom is important," he said. "That freedom in the class promotes some amazing questions from the students." Mr. Henderson said that today there seems to be a lot of marriage breakdown, unwed mothers, divorces and common law arrangements and wondered why the increase in these areas. He asked if it wasn't due to the education the children are receiving, then what it is due to? Mr. Harman suggested that the per capita ratio, has probably not changed much at all pointing out that larger classroom enrolments automatically means more problems. • Mr. Coulter suggested that a change in attitudes may also make it appear as though there is more promiscutiy. He said in his day if a girl was pregnant in school she was taken out of class and hidden away until she had the baby. "Now we welcome unwed mothers in the schools and encourage them to finish their year," he said. Segregated Classes Clinton trustee Dorothy Williams suggested that split classes may produce more effective results pointing out that sometimes boys will ask questions if there are not girls in the class and vice versa. Clare Harman said he would prefer to teach the material coed adding quickly that he felt it was the only way to teach it. He said the questions asked early in the course are usually asked by the more outgoing children but as a comfort level is established and a rapport between students (Continued on Page 20) BERG .sales Service I Installation I• FREE ESTIMATES ° - • I. Barri: Gleaners ° Bunk Feeders ° Stabling I. 'Donald G. Ives R.R,#2, Biyth '! Ohmic_ Brussels 887-9024 .1: The education committee of I adolescence. Dating is discussed the Huron Country Board of , and avmpared to friendships Education was told recently that the bulk of the material taught by teachers in sex education classes is put together by teachers in the county system. The committee met with two elementary school health and physical education teachers in Huron to try to determine what all so called sex education classes coneernI. Sheila Morton, a teacher from Seaforth Public School, and Clare Harman of Colborne Central Public School, laid out what they termed a family living course to the committee pointing out that very little guidance for the, program is given by the Ministry of Education. Superintendent I of Education Jim Coulter explained that while the Ministry does comment on what goals sex education should aim for it offers very few' guidelines on how to reach those goals. He said that the teachers in the county develop the curriculum to be used at the elementary level and are charged with the task of imparting the information to the children. "The abilities of the teachers in this course can determine the course effectiveness," said Mr. other aspects of life and family Colter. "If the teacher is I living. uncomfortable discussing the McKillop Trustee John subject I suppose he can always Henderson wondered why turn to the health nurse for children were so much rougher Assistance." , I today that they were years ago, Mrs. Morton said she felt the! claiming that the types of words best way to teach the course was they use in the playgrounds to set up an informal type class I indicates they are learning the where no notes are keIpL no words somewhere. He wondered I testing is done and all the subject if the sex education classes had matter is given orally. She said anything to do with it. she merely talks to the students in a matter of fact manner and finds that once the children realize that the subject is not dirty and' unmentionable the classes progress smoothly. She said she liked to handle all the material in the class herself and leaves nothing for the public health nurse. She said she . couldn't explain why she felt that Way but was of the opinion that the students wouldn't be as frank with a health nurse as they were with her. The program taught in the elementary classes is stretched over three years beginning in Grade 6. The first year the class is introduced to their bodies and are told why they are undergoing physical and emotional changes I as they develop physically. Puberty is defined as a state in t development betWeen child and adult and the body changes that I take place during puberty are explained. The reproductive process is explained and students made aware of how human life begins. Self control is touched on as children are made aware of the fact that they are responsible for , their own behaviour, In Grade 7 the class starts off reviewing material learned the previous year and then moves into social development through rsiimr-wirk II