(24 Jan 2015, 8:07 am)Dan wrote I'm in Lower Sixth now and still haven't had Sex Education. I'm 18 at the end of the year.
The teacher who used to teach it during PSHE lessons retired, and from what I understand (having complained to the Senior Leadership Team at my school), none of the other teachers at my school felt comfortable teaching it to younger students.
I will never forget, in Year 10, a girl approaching my Biology teacher and saying, "Miss, you know crabs... Do you get them by having sex on a beach?" She was deadly serious.
There are now a number of people in my year group who have had sex, but I guess they had to do their own research prior to the event!
It does seem like most teachers at most schools don't want to teach it, sometimes you just get the educational video "okay we're going to watch a video about sex ed now, I hope it answers all your questions"
Funny thing I heard once was someone had to watch a video of a baby being born but the teacher put the video in the machine and it started to play then pressed rewind so it looked like the baby was going back into the lady.
It's pretty bad that your 17 and have had no education on it from school, I didn't have much education about actually related to sex when I was in school thankfully for me Skins and Shameless were two big show on TV when I was 14, not really ideal about learning about sex, everything else I've learnt was from Channel 4 documentaries.