Should poop education be included in health classes? I teach in a high school (not health, by the way), and have quite accidentally found out a disturbing ignorance about poop among otherwise intelligent students.

They know, of course, every last thing about sex. But I saw a paper from a ninth grader who used the word "laxative" without a clue as to what it meant. A conversation among students revealed a twelfth grader who did not know what a hemorrhoid was.

Do your children get adequate information on bowel-related matters at school? How do you educate them at home? What is it that every child should know?