Hold parents' meetings at which a principal, doctor, or minister persuades parents to give sex instruction at home and to permit class and lecture instruction at school.¶

Strategy · All strategies
Evidence · 3 claims (3 for) · 2 studies (1 review, 1 theoretical), q1 · 0 of 2 report an effect size · 3 claims rest on one study

Description¶

This strategy enlists administrators to educate parents directly about sex instruction. At parents' meetings, "the principal, a doctor, a minister or some other earnest and well-educated man can show the parents the need and possibility of giving their children instruction in sex in the home." The essay judges that "this sort of education of the parents can go a long way toward removing the ban on the consideration of sex," making it a root-level lever an earnest administrator can use.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• An earnest administrator and a well-educated speaker with the credibility to persuade parents of the need for home instruction.

Constraints¶

• The essay presents this as a promising possibility whose success is not demonstrated, since it is described as a means that 'would seem to have great possibilities' if successful.

Target Learners¶

• parents of school children

Target Learning Goals¶

• parents' willingness and ability to instruct children in sex at home
• parental support for school sex instruction

Claims¶

• Instruction in sexual matters is held by authorities to be the best and most powerful means of prevention, though not a cure-all, and the alternative to good instruction is bad instruction rather than silence. [+W]
• The school is the only organized agency that can assure sex instruction reaches all children, since the home and free literature cannot be relied upon [+W]
• Biology courses alone are judged inadequate for sex instruction and should be supplemented by more personal and direct means such as special lectures. [+W]

Related Strategies¶

• Before a study, researchers should present the proposal to district administration, hold conversations with administrators and teachers, and host parent events to build buy-in
• Offer Services and Events to Bring Parents into the School

Examples¶

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Key Sources¶

• Foster, W. S. (1911). School Instruction in Matters of Sex. Journal of Educational Psychology. https://www.google.com/search?q=%22School+Instruction+in+Matters+of+Sex%22+Foster