Alt: Latin and History both compulsory until 6th form.
I'd also have Sex Education taught in year 6, rather than year 10, when our school taught it.
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Tue 25 Oct 2011, 14:23, 2 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

Year 10?
We'd had our first teenage pregnancy by 4th year...
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Tue 25 Oct 2011, 14:24, Reply)

That's year 10
Our first and second were both year 11/5th year.
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Tue 25 Oct 2011, 14:29, Reply)

I know year 10 is 4th year
But I couldn't say we'd had our first teenage pregnancy by year 10, because back in the middle ages, we called taht 4th year.
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Tue 25 Oct 2011, 14:33, Reply)

Haha, at Merchants they were the same, but after I swapped to a worse school, I just became used to calling it that

( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Tue 25 Oct 2011, 14:33, Reply)

I think they changed over around about the time I was in the sixth form
but it was still a geological age ago.
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Tue 25 Oct 2011, 14:37, Reply)

Now, was that before or after O Levels changed?

( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Tue 25 Oct 2011, 14:37, Reply)

After.
We were the third yeargroup to do GCSEs.
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Tue 25 Oct 2011, 14:41, Reply)

The only change along those lines that I know about is that I was in the last year that was allowed to takes notes into your English exam
As long as they were only notes, and not full sentences.
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Tue 25 Oct 2011, 14:45, Reply)

The year below us were the first ones to do 100% coursework for maths.

( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Tue 25 Oct 2011, 14:46, Reply)

Split between exams and coursework for us
I didn't do any coursework for it, as a result my result wasn't quite as good as was expected of me. I really was a short sighted fucker.
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Tue 25 Oct 2011, 14:49, Reply)

I'd have it when they are too young to be interested in sex
then they wouldn't spend the whole lesson sniggering and might learn something.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Tue 25 Oct 2011, 14:26, Reply)

And then start telling every woman they see that 'You have a vagina'

( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Tue 25 Oct 2011, 14:27, Reply)

wel, yes I know it breaks social conventions.
but they could be taught not to. My son picked up all sorts when he was just learning to speak from his grandmother, we got him to the point that just because he knows a word he doesn't have to use it, so it is possible.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Tue 25 Oct 2011, 14:32, Reply)

If the worst thing you have to worry about is a small child saying a word like "vagina"
then you've got it pretty easy I reckon.

Also, you never responded to my last point about driving.
(Bazongaloid, Tue 25 Oct 2011, 14:37, Reply)

If they're listening to their grandmothers (or Monty)
they'll be more likely to use words like 'darky'.

My gran used to call us 'mucky arabs' when we had dirt on our faces. I hadn't realised it had stuck until I caught myself saying it to my dog when he came in covered in muck.

Oops.
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Tue 25 Oct 2011, 14:50, Reply)

Exactly, I think year 6 is a good time for this
I know a girl who lost her virginity in year 7, and I find that pretty fucked up, tbh.
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Tue 25 Oct 2011, 14:29, Reply)

Well that's the point?!

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 25 Oct 2011, 14:30, Reply)

I told her not to tell anyone!

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 25 Oct 2011, 14:32, Reply)

Year 6 is 11 isn't it?
a bit late I reckon, maybe a year or 2 younger to be on the safe side.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Tue 25 Oct 2011, 14:37, Reply)

Yes

( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Tue 25 Oct 2011, 14:37, Reply)

I think the benchmark is when they start hitting puberty
so they know what to expect. A lot of girls are starting their periods these days at 10 or 11. I've had to sit in on a classroom discussion about girls of that age leaving towels on the floor of the school loos, because they weren't really sure what else to do with them.
That was an awkward afternoon.
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Tue 25 Oct 2011, 14:40, Reply)

I bet DJ never did it again though!

( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Tue 25 Oct 2011, 14:40, Reply)

hahahaha

( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Tue 25 Oct 2011, 14:42, Reply)