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Hi, everyone. And welcome back to America Under the Microscope. 欢迎回来【闲话美国】. Hi, James.
Hi Lulu. Hi, everyone.
It has been sometimes since last time we’ve spoke. So how's the new semester treating you？
It’s been busy , dealing with teenagers is a handful.
Actually I thought today we can talk about education-related topic.
Cool.
In fact the other day, I was talking to some of my students. I said what kind of subjects you did in school, and apart from the the major subjects, the academic subjects, we were talking about health education, specifically sex education.
Really?
Yeah.
Usually that's a topic I find many students don't want to talk about.
Well. I mean, I think many of my students they were saying that they wish they had more of a comprehensive sex education when they were in school. Because there wasn’t any when they were growing up. Yeah. So I thought let's talk about that. A little bit of a risky topic is talk about on this platform, but I thought it's a ,nonetheless, it is an essential element of education. Right？
I agree it's very important.
So first of all, let's talk about your own experience when you were in school, did you get any like formal sex education？
Yes I did have ‘sex and health education’ what a lot of schools call it. And I had it at all three levels from primary school, middle school and high school.
Oh, So that's always in the curriculum, 就是一直在课程设置里面的是吧？
Yes, and most public schools it very much is part of the curriculum.
And let me guess based on all these other topics we talked about, it's not the same across the country. Every state has their own standards.
That should be a mean for this program. It's not the same everywhere in America.
No. A lot of people if they have never been to America, if they were just like listening to social media, whatever, people have this general perception of Americans are very, very open-minded when it comes to sexuality, for example, I don't think that's true. Is it?
Not really ,to be honest, most Americans tend to be kind of conservative about it. Don't trust what you see in the media. Most people kind of keep to themselves about that kind of stuff.
So what is like the sort of general family attitudes, like parents attitude? Are they happy that it's included or...?
Well, I've read recently in a poll from planned parenthood, which is a big nonprofit organization that deals with sex education and pregnancy, that most parents are supportive of these programs in schools. And they want the schools to teach the children. The key factors which are involved are sexuality and health because it's part of being human and it's part of growing up.
Em... Hang on a minute. You mentioned planned parenthood. Yes, in English there is something called like Family Planning, right?
So It's kind of like has to do with when you want to get pregnant when you want to have babies. Is that true? 就有点计划生育就是跟我们的计划生育不是一样的意思, but it sort of is about planning when do you have kids?
It's along those same lines, but a lot of planned parenthood, what they do is they also do education about sexuality, sexual health, sexually transmitted infections and prevention and all these things.  So it's not like necessarily about family planning. But when to have children.
Em....try to avoid.
Understanding what leads to children.
And also to sort of like prevent unwanted pregnancy.