Journalists School 9 spoke to Camelia Manea, one of the teachers who wrote a 7th grade biology manual in which the theme of reproduction is addressed.
“Amalia was 14, and her friend, Sorin, had 17, when she became pregnant with Tudor, who is almost 2 years old. She lives with her mother, because the child's father, although she ran home to live with Amalia and their child, scared and left. I resume the school, but now I have no way. He has no tears.
This shows a case study introduced in the Biology Manual for the 7th grade of Corinth Publishing House. On page 103, according to the theory related to the reproductive function, the authors of the manual propose practical exercises based on the article of Andrei Tudorică, “The children who have children”, since February 2018, writes school 9.
In the interview with School 9, Camelia Manea, one of the authors of the manual, about how she came to teach biology and then write textbooks, how to hand over the reproduction before and after the Revolution, how she sees health and sexual education in school, what reactions have students at hours.
“I finished high school in the year of grace 1980. I gave to the Faculty of Biochemistry in Bucharest. After the faculty I received distribution at the Dumbrăveni High School, in Sibiu county. Then I moved to Ploiești and worked in the industry as a biochemist. Problems ”, says Camelia Manea, in the interview with School 9.
How was the reproduction function taught when he was a student
She remembered how the reproduction function was taught when she was a student. “Very serious. Even if it was before the revolution. It was not approached as a sexual education, but as the anatomy and physiology of the reproductive system. So I had only the descriptive part. – The information related to the revolution was strictly scientific. I mean, I knew very clearly that you have to marry and have a more limited universe. That we have to make the difference between what is good and what is not good.
She also spoke about her experience as a teacher.
“I had the opportunity to teach health education in human classes, in the 11th and 12th grades. There were four modules that referred to the health of reproduction and family, to the consumption and abuse of toxic substances, to human values, violence, abuse. I traveled them seriously.
At the first course I was expecting to be refractory, to make jokes, but they were very serious and they even asked many questions. And then I said it is an area that must be developed and deepened. ”
