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Should relationships be on the national curriculum?
**helen**
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Here's a blog post that says yes...
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/stella-creasy-why-relationships-national-curriculum-230158297.html#y4ynLFg
Is the class room a good place?
If not, why not?
if yes, what would you like to/liked to have learned?
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/stella-creasy-why-relationships-national-curriculum-230158297.html#y4ynLFg
Is the class room a good place?
If not, why not?
if yes, what would you like to/liked to have learned?
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knowing how/when to trust people, how to support each other etc, and even things like self-esteem might actually result in alot less issues like teen pregnancy, broken families etc. a good idea i think
To be honest, I would just have liked to have been acknowledged at school. We talked about gay people only in the abstract terms of "issues" in RE and Govt. / Politics, and even then only in 6th form by which time most of the damage had been done. Health forms of relationship need to be taught.
If a teacher isn't happy teaching about same-sex relationships they shouldn't have to, but they should get in a supply who will in those situations.
This
Not 100%, like most things you cant learn it until you actually experience it yourself, but i think introducing some things may help to give kids a different outlook before they go out there, getting pregnant with someone they think is 'the one' but doesnt really know how a relationship works
interesting that this thread has been pulled up:
http://vbulletin.thesite.org/showthread.php/135352-Naive-15-year-old-Finnish-girl-and-internet-creeps
maybe being taught a bit more about relationhips may have stopped this girl being so naive?
I also think that a key aspect of relationships is self esteem. We need to somehow get the message across to kids that they as individuals matter, and don't need to look for validation from other people. You can be a happy, normal, healthy person without needing to have a boyfriend/girlfriend. Yes, relationships are important, but they're not the be all and end all. Can't help but think that if somehow could get individuals self esteem up then we could improve the stability of relationships.
Teaching the former is difficult, but probably not impossible. Teaching the latter could be pretty straightforward.
:yes: I currently (by choice) am not with anyone and I find that some people don't understand how I can be happy without someone.
As someone whose has a few relationship issues this year, I would have loved to have known how to deal with them before they got to the stage they did.
I think relationships are a part of that. Probably money management and cooking too! - but that's another discussion I'm sure.
Like I said, we definitely had relationships in our PHSE lessons. What expectations should be. How do you resolve conflict. It wasn't a huge focus, but PHSE lessons were 1 hour a week so there wasn't a huge amount of anything.
I suppose if the question is: should school prepare you for every relationship eventuality? No. It can't. School's should give us the toolkit (teaching us to respect others, listen to others, even to take a time out and see things from another perspective) that we can go into a relationship and have the best chance of success.
Absolutely agree with the principal here. The amount of people i have known who jump from relationship to relationship and just don't seem capable of functioning by themselves is frightening.
Kids should be given the skills they need to be happy, functioning INDIVIDUAL and that finding a bf/gf would be a nice bonus but it doesn't make you any less of a person if you don't have one.
The problem is, you can try and drum this into a kid/teenager but society will always make them think the other way. These days if you get to 16 and haven't had sex/a bf/gf you are considered an outcast by other people your age....kids are given the impression from anywhere and everywhere that sex/relationships is all their is to life. Which is obviously wrong.
Agreed! Do you think there's anything in particular about relationships that you think should be included in lessons?
Have just been alerted to the fact that there's a similar discussion on TSR - some interesting replies:
http://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/showthread.php?t=2384803