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Values and opinions about sex education among Montreal area English secondary school students.


 This paper presents results of the 3rd phase of an on-going study of values and education, the 1st 2 components of which surveyed 71 classroom teachers involved in sex education and 174 parents of students taking sex education classes. This paper reports on 667 English-speaking, Montreal area secondary school students aged 14-17 who completed a research questionnaire designed to elicit their experience, opinion, and ranking of various aspects of school sex education programs. Many students are getting very little sex education; some students get none. They would like a special course in sex education taught by a properly trained teacher. They want only some of their classes in sex education to be co-ed. They perceived their own value system as strongly influenced by their peers. They see sex as a part of their lives, and want to discuss its implications. They do not want to focus simply on the biological aspects or to place sex only in a context of parenthood and family. Girls find boys too aggressive. Boys want girls to see sex more in the context of fun. The values students are receptive to are those needed to socialize sex for their personal and social well-being. On the surface, these values do not seem to be in conflict with those of their parents.
