proud_of_me Posted November 6, 2015 Share Posted November 6, 2015 i'm in high school and it seems like no one knows anything about asexuality (or other sexualities, for that matter) unless i educate them. how would i present an education program to educate nearly everyone? is it even possible? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Frigid Pink Posted November 6, 2015 Share Posted November 6, 2015 Well, it'd have to be okay for people to even learn about sexuality, in general, first, and efforts for comprehensive sexual education have been in the works for awhile now and are still not readily accepted by the community at large. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Meudwen Posted November 6, 2015 Share Posted November 6, 2015 As a high school student yourself, your options are pretty limited. Sexual education already has its hands tied by what parents and community/state will allow to be taught for religious or other personal reasons so unfortunately not only is it not comprehensive about all types of sexual orientations and gender identities, but for many programs they barely teach things correctly for cis-heterosexual relationships. So getting it literally added into the curriculum might be impossible. Even aside from that, my teachers always told me that schools are so busy just trying to get kids to pass the next mandatory assessment they barely have to time to teach them anything, which is absolutely true. We were so desperate trying to pass assessments and the PSATs and SATs that they even gave kids cash rewards if they just tried to pass the freaking test, because otherwise the staff was in danger of being fired OR the school wouldn't get funding. And it's not like my school was the worst school, it was just crazy cut-throat ways that the system was being run. I really hope it's not that extreme everywhere, but my point is... chances are your school could care less about having any sort of actual class because they have bigger things to worry about and no time to get things done as it is. As it is, I always hear about how hard it is for music and art programs to fight from being cut. At my school, we had a Civil Rights group (which doubled as our only LGBT-related program) so if your school has a similar group, you could join and make sure that asexuality and other minority sexualities/genders are given attention? I think that those groups at least are allowed to make posters which they can display at certain times of the year, with approval from the principal or superintendent. If you don't have a CR group or LGBT group you could try to start one, which would be great for your fellow classmates. You'd have to ask what the guidelines are for your school but I think a common starting point is to have several students interested in the group, and to have a teacher who is willing to be the group's adviser. If you can't get your message out through either group, you can also try to make your own poster with educational information and ask for permission from the principal to display it somewhere in school. If you did that, you should probably try for something like these to cover all your bases. Other than that, your best bet is to educate your peers on a one-on-one basis as you go and as the topic comes up, because if you try to educate the masses all at once you'll probably find the universal truth that people are assholes. ^_^ Not everyone, but there's always a group of kids who don't give a shit and will give you a hard time, so brace yourself. (Sorry to sound cynical or anything, I'm here for you educating! but I've tried the same thing myself and hit roadblocks, so this is my two cents to help) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
proud_of_me Posted November 16, 2015 Author Share Posted November 16, 2015 Sad to say we don't have a LGBT+ group or anything like that. I live in Republican Wyoming, so even being something other than heterosexual cisgender is a sin. Which is probably why no one knows about sexualities. Oh well xP Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DannyFenton123 Posted November 16, 2015 Share Posted November 16, 2015 Sexuality education? Everything I learned in that department was from the internet :( Quote Link to post Share on other sites
proud_of_me Posted November 16, 2015 Author Share Posted November 16, 2015 Sexuality education? Everything I learned in that department was from the internet :( same. which is why we NEED IT TO BE MORE FRICK-FRACKIN COMMON Quote Link to post Share on other sites
firemaren Posted November 16, 2015 Share Posted November 16, 2015 We had sexual education for a whole year and learned only about heterosexuality. In one sentence my teacher mentioned homosexuality but added that she thinks it's unnatural.Everything else wasn't even touched upon! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DannyFenton123 Posted November 16, 2015 Share Posted November 16, 2015 We had sexual education for a whole year and learned only about heterosexuality. In one sentence my teacher mentioned homosexuality but added that she thinks it's unnatural. Everything else wasn't even touched upon! Yeah, I had a sex talk like that (not for a year just for a week) and homosexuality was mentioned about once. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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