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<blockquote data-quote="ShakinThingzUp" data-source="post: 97294" data-attributes="member: 4250"><p>Sex education and health class (6th grade) were both difficult for my daughter (now 14, sexually abused at 9).</p><p></p><p>She did not have rages or meltdowns because we had already come so far in her healing before the classes began. What she did have was a LOT OF DEPRESSION. She was moody, sullen, argumentative (snappy like you get when you have PMS), and just generally sad looking/acting all the time. </p><p></p><p>They didn't see much of it at school, because if she could distract herself with friends & socializing, she did!! (thus, grades dropped).</p><p></p><p>2-3 weeks after sex ed in 5th grade ended, so did the depression. In 6th grade however, health class was 6 months long... eventually, her teacher DID notice that she was putting her head down during class a lot & did not seem to pay attention. That's because day-after-day-after-day of it she can't push back the feelings... you can only hold it in so long.</p><p></p><p>So ------- even if a sexually abused child does not exhibit rages, etc - it still hits them... it does affect them... sometimes its not seen by anyone. They need help through these classes. In my daughters case, she also needs the class (health) because she needs to hear about hygiene, etc.</p><p></p><p>God Bless!</p><p>Amy</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ShakinThingzUp, post: 97294, member: 4250"] Sex education and health class (6th grade) were both difficult for my daughter (now 14, sexually abused at 9). She did not have rages or meltdowns because we had already come so far in her healing before the classes began. What she did have was a LOT OF DEPRESSION. She was moody, sullen, argumentative (snappy like you get when you have PMS), and just generally sad looking/acting all the time. They didn't see much of it at school, because if she could distract herself with friends & socializing, she did!! (thus, grades dropped). 2-3 weeks after sex ed in 5th grade ended, so did the depression. In 6th grade however, health class was 6 months long... eventually, her teacher DID notice that she was putting her head down during class a lot & did not seem to pay attention. That's because day-after-day-after-day of it she can't push back the feelings... you can only hold it in so long. So ------- even if a sexually abused child does not exhibit rages, etc - it still hits them... it does affect them... sometimes its not seen by anyone. They need help through these classes. In my daughters case, she also needs the class (health) because she needs to hear about hygiene, etc. God Bless! Amy [/QUOTE]
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