Delhi schools go beyond birds and bees

Hi All,

An article in today's (24th November, '05) Times of India, Delhi Edition says that the capital schools are getting all together a whole new course on 'life skills' under the adolescene education program - Yuva - with Sehwag as brand embassador and a theme song by the band Euphoria as a gift on the advent of this new year. The course is aimed to discuss those topics with students who either startle them or are not discussed at all because they are considered taboo.

Every effort has been made to deal with the course in a completely new perspective which apart from generating the interest in the student will also be very informative and helpful in their day-to-day life. The course is for the students of VIth standard and above. A glimpse of the topics to be discussed in it is as follows:

• What to do if there was a bomb threat.
• A world without women
• Awareness about child abuse, bad touch and good touch.
• cultivating a positive body image (examples are some of the big faces of bollywood etc).
• ... If a man had uterus.
• If there were no clothes for anybody.
• Modules on HIV Aids, Sex education etc etc

In the course of making the subject more interesting to the students the Topics of the chapters are also made like Pyaar Vyaar and Peer Presure ; Kya Khayen, Kya Na Khayen, Ye kaisei Mushkil Hai etc. Follow the link to the news by clicking here.

I wish I could have studied one such course like this :P

Enjoy
Arun