Teaching Femine Hygiene????
I laughed out loud when the new teacher said she was teaching feminine hygiene. Does that take a full semester? :(
shareI don't remember Feminie Hygene being an acutal class, and I think that line was added because it was funny coming from the uptight strait-laced teacher. We had "Health". Seperate classes for girls and boys.
shareToday it would be the sex-ed classes which are now kind of woven into a bunch of courses. But they do focus in on the gritty details. Hasn't seemed to help much as the birth rate among teens continues to grow. Maybe
feminine hygiene worked better.
...Actually , I believe it has gone down (especially assuming you mean non-wed births among teens) during this century .
shareWhen I was in junior high school in the late forties, we had a class called "Personal Problems." The boys were in one class and the girls in another. I guess they discussed feminine hygiene. My class was taught by a coach, so we didn't learn anything. The only thing I remember was the coach talking about bathing daily and using deodorant.
shareOur "Health" class, at least for the girls, concentrated on things like brushing your teeth, daily baths, and what to do about acne. Also, we talked about our periods, what to do for cramps, etc. But I don't remember anything at all about sex education, and if we had any at all, it was probably not very graphic. I don't remember it being part of the class. For me, this was in the 50's in high school. I was dumber than dirt when it came to knowing anything. I didn't even suspect anything till I was in my teens. All the sex ed I got was from dirty jokes my friends would tell, and some dirty books they snuck into gym class.
share ~ Now these days it is called plain Health in grammer school. And in High School Sex Ed. I remember when I was younger Femine Hygiene a.k.a (health) was a bit akward.
Or atleast how our teacher explained it to us. It was obivously easier for her to just use the video & booklets on the matter. As for Sex Ed our gym teachers were pretty open for the sex stuff. Wonder how it was talking about sex in the 50's?
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I went to high school in the 50's as well, and what you stated was so true...Once we saw a film on hygiene, and it did cover the things you said in your post, after the film was over,there was no discussion...It was as though the film never existed....It was very awkward to say the least.
shareI went to elementary school from 1970 to 1975. We had a class called Health every year. We learned the basics of hygiene, nutrition, the major systems of the body, how diseases spread and how to avoid them, and so on. It was basically a class on how to take care of yourself. In the 5th grade, the girls were given permission slips to take home. About two weeks later, they left en masse for the auditorium for a separate presentation, which I later found out they discussed the issues around the female reproductive system. Us boys didn't get our talk until the 7th grade.
The most disturbing things about Health class: watching the birth of various animals in 4th grade (still remember a giraffe and hippo coming out) and, in the 6th grade, watching a film about heroin users. This was no "Reefer Madness" - very gritty and disturbing (enough that another infamous permission slip was needed to watch) The drug scare tactics must've worked. Scared me off drugs for life.