Sunday, 21 April 2013

Edited version of this got published in The Hindu


Topic: Does sex education in the schools serve its purpose?

I strongly feel that nothing has been done in this regard at all by our education system. Most of our day to day social problems occur only due to poor knowledge on understanding the other gender physically and mentally.
Our education system has not felt the importance of this and taken forward. Most of the adolescent male students does not even know the physical discomforts their female friends undergo in that age. This is neither in the syllabus nor taught by the schools or teachers. Even most of the teachers themselves feel uncomfortable in talking these things in their classes.
Other than students studying biological sciences and medical sciences were taught as a part of their curriculum about sex as an education. Other streams students does not even know about the theory part of sex even after completing their degrees.
A conscious effort has to be taken up by the people who design the syllabus and curriculum to include this to avoid all the social issues happening in the current circumstances.

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