At South Umpqua High School Keri Vermillion and Mary Kuk were interviewed on the topic of abstinence education and sexual education …show more content…
Lenning. Vermillion is the current health teacher for South Umpqua. Mrs. Kuk was the previous health teacher for 33 years before retiring in spring of 2010; which after her retirement, Mrs. Vermillion ended as the …show more content…
Kuk (Kuk). Transmission of sexual diseases and teen pregnancy has been found to decline ever since the start of sexual education replacing abstinence only education (Hunter). As the rise of sexual education increased, it was found that sexual activity among adolescents was declining (Hunter). As sexual activity has decreased among teens, so has the spread of sexually transmitted diseases in high schools. Since a comprehensive sexual education influences teens more to think before preforming sexually activities than does abstinence education, which could be correlated that abstinence does not even remain being as effective at preventing sex between adolescence, the entire point of an abstinence only