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...Safe Zone In most middle and high schools around the country, sex education is handled by an athletic coach doubling as a health teacher or by a science instructor who drew the short straw. Kristen Jordan is not one of those teachers. Walk past her classroom on the first day of sixth grade and you'll hear her leading the students in an enthusiastic chorus of "Penis! Penis! Penis! Vagina! Vagina! Vagina!" "Until they can use the real names for their body parts without giggling," she explains, "you can't talk to them about anything serious." The attractive 27-year...
...Jordan has become a constant presence in the lives of her young charges. At Starr-Iva Middle School, she teaches two courses--one focused on basic sexuality, the other on decision-making skills--to each class in the sixth, seventh and eighth grades. The program gives students escalating levels of information about STIs, pregnancy and contraception. But it also encourages them to delay sexual activity, works on building self-esteem and uses role-playing to teach them how to resist pressure from peers and partners...
...time kids like Jewels arrive at Crescent High School, they see Jordan as a counselor they can turn to with questions and in crises. (The fact that she's not an official school employee helps inspire that trust and also means she can help students schedule medical appointments.) Her classroom is a safe zone for the kinds of questions that pinball inside the heads of teenagers--and that gives her a chance to air out some popular rumors. (Question: Does drinking Mountain Dew lower sperm count? Answer...
...quite knew how this highly religious community would react to the Impact program. But it has encountered virtually no opposition. While parents can opt to have their children skip Jordan's classes, not many do (fewer than a dozen out of a student body of 600). They can also look through her course materials and sit in on her classes. If a dad walked into one of her after-school programs for at-risk kids--usually students whose parents or siblings were teen parents--he might blush at the candid talk about sex and relationships. But he'd also notice...
...Club sports provide both opportunities and limitations for those wishing to participate in lower intensity or competition. They allow one to become best friends with Lavietes, Jordan, and Murr, while simultaneously getting barred from Palmer-Dixon and Dillon. However, even with the low rung on the Harvard athletic totem pole, club sports provide an extraordinary outlet for non-varsity students...