Each state decides the content of curriculum and one Florida program is among those credited with reducing the rate of teen pregnancies. And Babies Later. In fifth grade they learn about puberty, the specifics of changes in boys and girls. We move them into same-sex classrooms for these lessons. Phillips noted an innovative twist on this traditional public school approach to teaching sex education.
Youth attend a single-sex classroom setting with a parent or guardian.
In response to single parent families, educators created a program to help both the child and the adult to feel more at ease about the learning process revolving around human sexuality. The parent can take a video home to watch with their child, or they can go to the boys' or girls' night out program and watch the program in a group setting, or they can do both, Phillips said. Students talk about different relationships with the opposite sex, starting in the sixth grade. Phillips gave an example of an awkward situation. A girl is talking to her boyfriend on the telephone while she is baby-sitting.