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cimoreneDid I ever tell you guys about the time we watched Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet1 in my 9th grade English class, and in the scene where they have sex, our student teacher2 came and held a piece of yellow poster board in front of the screen until they stopped?
I went to a large public high school in the most liberal city (which isn't saying much) in the grand old Pancreas of Dixie, Alabama. We were also taught Sex Respect instead of sex education in school, where activities such as making up rhyming slogans to discourage teen pregnancy replaced activities such as learning what contraception is or how impregnation occurs.
1. Romeo+Juliet had come out the year before so 100% of the class had already seen it. This was the Reign of La DiCaprio in my high school. Even Prince William couldn't compete. The next year, there was a group of girls belonging to my social clique who made sure that every time we performed impromptu skits in Spanish III - which we did once per week - at least one group's skit contained a reference to DiCaprio. The most popular skit, which they performed again at the end of the year party to great applause, was the one where Hilary Clinton (played by the other lesbian in the class, though I didn't know it at the time) pushed her husband (played by an extremely freckly ginger Republican named Riley) off the Titanic in order to claim Leo (I don't remember who played him) for herself.
2. I remember her quite clearly because she wore false nails, which had a new fanciful color each week. The first week she was with us they were pewter, a dark metallic silver color which I had never seen on anyone's nails before and instantly resolved to find for myself.
I went to a large public high school in the most liberal city (which isn't saying much) in the grand old Pancreas of Dixie, Alabama. We were also taught Sex Respect instead of sex education in school, where activities such as making up rhyming slogans to discourage teen pregnancy replaced activities such as learning what contraception is or how impregnation occurs.
1. Romeo+Juliet had come out the year before so 100% of the class had already seen it. This was the Reign of La DiCaprio in my high school. Even Prince William couldn't compete. The next year, there was a group of girls belonging to my social clique who made sure that every time we performed impromptu skits in Spanish III - which we did once per week - at least one group's skit contained a reference to DiCaprio. The most popular skit, which they performed again at the end of the year party to great applause, was the one where Hilary Clinton (played by the other lesbian in the class, though I didn't know it at the time) pushed her husband (played by an extremely freckly ginger Republican named Riley) off the Titanic in order to claim Leo (I don't remember who played him) for herself.
2. I remember her quite clearly because she wore false nails, which had a new fanciful color each week. The first week she was with us they were pewter, a dark metallic silver color which I had never seen on anyone's nails before and instantly resolved to find for myself.
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Date: 12 Jan 2010 08:36 pm (UTC)Well, at least we know the program was successful....
...in producing erotic fanfiction writers. *g*
Heh. Serves them right.
Also, we had the File Folder of Purity on Romeo and Juliet AND on the running-naked-swimming-boys bit of "A Room With A View."
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Date: 12 Jan 2010 10:58 pm (UTC)Our sex ed involved a lot of detail on an improved version of the rhythm method (it involved taking temperatures...?), a brief coverage of non-Catholic-approved contraception, and some abortion horror stories.
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Date: 12 Jan 2010 10:59 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 13 Jan 2010 12:22 am (UTC)i was incredibly lucky to go to the catholic high school run by the upstart nuns. we had sex ed in such a depth that i still want to squirm and blush a decade later. i remember our religion teacher freshman year made us do in class presentation about various birth control methods.
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Date: 13 Jan 2010 12:54 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 13 Jan 2010 03:21 am (UTC)And then obviously we were traumatized forever, the end!
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Date: 13 Jan 2010 03:23 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 13 Jan 2010 09:58 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 13 Jan 2010 09:58 am (UTC)