Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-98.235.154.24-20130913002452/@comment-11687-20131031005328

Andrew Waltfeld wrote:

To be honest, It's a combat school, and it would seem foolish that they would not cover this topic remotely considering much like work related romances, policies have to be put in place by the company or in this case - school regarding those types of relationships.

It probably has happened at Beacon before. It almost certainly has come to light at some point most likely. Which I would infer that there is some policy in place to deal with that type of situation.

Honestly, the easiest answer is to simply have a sex-ed class/seminars or whatever. Unless the school has a history of ignoring major problems which It doesn't seem like it would, then it would seem logical that such a class or seminar is in place.

I'm not sure what you mean by "it" having happened at Beacon before (students having sex? Unplanned pregnancies? Outbreaks of STDs?), but all of the aforementioned scenarios are likely.

I do think that it's likely that Beacon has, at the very least, a stated policy with regards to student interactions, which would likely cover romantic interactions to some degree. Whether or not that have a class is less certain, but the more operative question is whether or not that class is comprehensive, or abstinence-only.

Again, the more effective method of controlling teenage pregnancies and the spread of sexually-transmitted infections is comprehensive sex education...but as I've mentioned before, looking purely at the facts and coming up with a solution that speaks to them is not something that will necessarily always happen. It's entirely possible that people will have reactions based around what they want to work, rather than what the data suggests actually will.

This doesn't necessarily indict the faculty, either. I briefly mentioned in a previous post that Beacon may have this issue come up in regards to issues of external support (e.g. finances). If the government of Vale supports Beacon, and the leaders decide to attach a qualifier that funding will only be given if the school teaches only abstinence-based sex education, there's not a lot that the faculty can do.

While it's nice to think that administration can be as simple as collecting data and making the best decision possible based solely on that, it's usually more complicated.

Andrew Waltfeld wrote:

Though frankly, while this discussion makes the debater inside me happy; this topic is relatively pointless as I doubt Monty and company would include such instances. At least in the first season, let alone first few.

It's only pointless if you construe this conversation as an attempt to influence the design team behind RWBY to address these issues within the context of the series itself. As I noted in my first post on this thread, that's not the case - we're having the discussion simply for the joy of having it (or at least, I am).