Sporrer/Rupp/Getty Images/Cultura RFTeachers who give the condom demonstrations will do so using an anatomically correct model, DOE officials said.
Condom demonstrations are coming to city classrooms starting in September, Education Department officials said Monday.
City high school students currently learn about condoms during mandated sex education in health courses, but must visit health resource rooms in nurses’ offices or administrative areas for a demonstration of how to use them.
But now Education Department officials are removing the longtime ban on condom demonstrations during class periods.
“Condom demonstrations have long been part of the high school condom availability programs and have been shown to increase rates of condom use,” said Education Department spokesman Jason Fink. “Allowing condom demonstrations in high school health education class will provide students with medically accurate information that can help them stay healthy.”
Teachers who give the condom demonstrations will do so using an anatomically correct model, DOE officials said.
Agency officials said they don’t yet know how many schools will participate in the classroom condom demonstrations.
As with other sexual health education prevention lessons, parents can choose to opt their children out.
City middle schools and high schools began requiring sex education for students in 2011 and many schools have distributed free condoms to students for years.
District superintendents were informed in mid-May of the policy change and they are now passing the information along to principals.
The change was first reported by the student newspaper at Townsend Harris High School in Queens on May 28. Townsend Harris staffers told the student paper they support the shift.
“It’s always a better lesson when there’s a tangible demonstration and something that’s real,” Assistant Principal Ellen Fee told the student paper. “So I’m grateful that the DOE has finally seen the importance of having practical demonstrations.”
Condom demonstrations coming to New York City classrooms in September
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