Sex Education and Christian Schools

Can they co-exist?

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I’m short, yes, they can.

But that isn’t really what I experienced. I’ll admit, this article was a little uncomfortable for me to write, but I think the topic needs some coverage.

I grew up in a Christian school and graduated from that same school less than two years ago. Naturally, I was taught quite a lot about Christianity, and the school I attended shaped many of my views and gave me a solid push for figuring out my spirituality.

Now, it did this in two ways. The first is in a direct way. Every year, I had some kind of class teaching the Bible or aspects of Christianity. With that, alongside chapel services and rules, I got a pretty solid foundation of what was considered right and what was considered wrong.

The second way they shaped my faith in an indirect way. A lot of this consisted of me seeing how the school handled certain things and deciding that it was or wasn’t right based on what I had learned from classes and reading the Bible myself.

Some things just came down to plain old ethics — like the time the school threatened to regulate the girls’ toilet paper use because someone kept overstuffing the toilets and calling all the girls in the school to a meeting and trying to scold us about being ladylike. I have my…