A class of fifth-graders are sitting through an hour-long sex-ed lesson at Louis B. Russell Jr. School 48 in Indianapolis. Some fidget, others giggle. And they have a lot of questions.
How old do you have to be to start using tampons?
What’s acne?
It’s April, and sex ed teacher Haileigh Huggins does her best to answer them all.
One boy asks, “Can boys have babies?”
“No, they cannot get pregnant,” she tells him.
“Because they both would have sperm cells right? There wouldn’t be an egg cell.”
Huggins is trained to teach age-appropriate, comprehensive sex education. But she only has an hour with these students — and that’s just enough time to cover the basics, like puberty and reproduction.
