By Eun Lee Koh T he bell rings and the students settle down, waiting impatiently for class to start.
Students giggle nervously around the room.
So the tedious weeks of naming the reproductive parts of the human anatomy and reading stories about how Sammy the Sperm and Emma the Egg meet. This was one teen's unpleasant experience in her freshman health class. But an effective family life education course in high school can literally mean the difference between life and death to a teenager. But regardless of how teens characterized the courses, most still complained that teachers spend too much time naming body parts and not enough time exploring the emotions and responsibilities involved with having sex. It was just like science class.