High school students in Seattle Public Schools are taught sex education once, in ninth grade health class.
RadioActive's Lily Turner recently graduated from Nathan Hale High School, where she saw the lack of sex ed throughout high school cause confusion and misinformation among her classmates.
But all this is about to change.
Episode webpage: https://www.kuow.org/stories/changes-are-coming-to-seattle-public-schools-sex-ed-courses
[RadioActive Youth Media is KUOW's radio journalism and audio storytelling program for young people. This story was entirely youth-produced, from the writing to the audio editing.]