Sadly, the issues are sidestepped in schools here too. For my sins, as the biology teacher I was "in charge of sex education" in two of the schools I taught in, supposedly shoehorning what I could into already overcrowded science syllabuses. But in assemblies and "special days" we'd have the school nurse, or a person of faith, or the ultra-Christian senior mistress adding their input. It wasn't always bad but the whole shebang added up to a piecemeal and uncoordinated approach. Very frustrating, but in fact we may well have been doing it better than most. I have some strong ideas about how secondary schools should be dealing with it but I won't bore you just now. Suffice to say that I think every teacher in the school has a role to play in education for relationships and that coordination is paramount. I got sick of "sex ed" becoming a Cinderella subject, diagnosing pubic lice from samples the kids brought in and sneaking girls out to the local clinic for the morning-after pill. And how many times did I hear that it was the parents' responsibility anyway...