It's after hours at Rafael Hernandez, an elementary school in the Bronx, and room 421 is in an uproar.
It's what you would expect from a sixth-grade sex education class learning how to put a condom on.
Sex education. The very concept makes a lot of people cringe, conjuring images of teenage giggles and discomfort. It's also a subject a lot of teachers would rather avoid.
But Bronx-based teacher Lena Solow is more than happy to talk about the birds, the bees ... and beyond.
Solow has been teaching for 10 years. She covers the topics you'd expect: how to prevent STDs, pregnancy. But Solow talks about way more than going all the way. "One of my biggest goals as a sex educator is to be sex-positive," she explains, "to talk about pleasure and to talk about sex not just as something that just makes babies."
[For more of this story, written by Jasmine Garsd, go to http://www.npr.org/sections/ed...rviving-sex-ed-today]
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