A Discussion on the Controversy Regarding the Sexual Education Curriculum.
The sexual education curriculum is likely the most criticized curriculum there is. This is partly due to its controversial nature, and because adequately teaching high school students about sex-related material is relatively new. Some of the criticisms stem from religious, personal, emotional, and factual viewpoints. These include arguments for and against including LGBT sex education into the curriculum, debating whether sex education should focus on promoting abstinence or birth control as the main form of contraception, and the morality surrounding the controversial issue.
One of the first instances of sexual education becoming a public issue was in the 1980’s, due …show more content…
It is important for this inclusion of LGBT sexual education to be factually correct, and taught unbiasedly; if it is not then it may damage LGBT individuals in the classroom, along with giving wrong impressions about homosexual individuals, relationships, and sexual activity. LGBT youth experience a higher chance of being threatened or injured at school than their straight counterparts (Youth Risk Behaviour Surveys, 2001-2009, cited in LGBT Youth). As a result of such negative attitudes and violence, LGBT youth are more likely to attempt and/or commit suicide (Russell ST, Joyner K, 2001, cited in LGBT Youth). Improving the sexual education curriculum by involving more LGBT orientated information is a commonly believed to have a positive effect on decreasing the harmful attitudes harboured towards homosexuals. Common reasons against including LGBT education, stem from religious and personal opinions, similar to opinions about involving abstinence as contraception. Some claims involve beliefs that learning about LGBT issues will encourage heterosexual youths to practice homosexuality, alongside concerns that learning and understand problems regarding LGBT youth violate some individuals religious beliefs, according to Janofsky & Michael, (2005). To fully evaluate …show more content…
The inclusion of LGBT sex education is believed to help the mental health of LGBT youth, along with improving the general opinion about homosexuals; however not unlike the debate surrounding the use of birth control or abstinence as a major form of contraception, the question regarding it is morality makes it seemingly unlikely to be implemented, or useful. Considering the mentioned arguments are all considered highly controversial, the importance of remaining unbiased and factually correct cannot be
The sexual education curriculum is likely the most criticized curriculum there is. This is partly due to its controversial nature, and because adequately teaching high school students about sex-related material is relatively new. Some of the criticisms stem from religious, personal, emotional, and factual viewpoints. These include arguments for and against including LGBT sex education into the curriculum, debating whether sex education should focus on promoting abstinence or birth control as the main form of contraception, and the morality surrounding the controversial issue.
One of the first instances of sexual education becoming a public issue was in the 1980’s, due …show more content…
It is important for this inclusion of LGBT sexual education to be factually correct, and taught unbiasedly; if it is not then it may damage LGBT individuals in the classroom, along with giving wrong impressions about homosexual individuals, relationships, and sexual activity. LGBT youth experience a higher chance of being threatened or injured at school than their straight counterparts (Youth Risk Behaviour Surveys, 2001-2009, cited in LGBT Youth). As a result of such negative attitudes and violence, LGBT youth are more likely to attempt and/or commit suicide (Russell ST, Joyner K, 2001, cited in LGBT Youth). Improving the sexual education curriculum by involving more LGBT orientated information is a commonly believed to have a positive effect on decreasing the harmful attitudes harboured towards homosexuals. Common reasons against including LGBT education, stem from religious and personal opinions, similar to opinions about involving abstinence as contraception. Some claims involve beliefs that learning about LGBT issues will encourage heterosexual youths to practice homosexuality, alongside concerns that learning and understand problems regarding LGBT youth violate some individuals religious beliefs, according to Janofsky & Michael, (2005). To fully evaluate …show more content…
The inclusion of LGBT sex education is believed to help the mental health of LGBT youth, along with improving the general opinion about homosexuals; however not unlike the debate surrounding the use of birth control or abstinence as a major form of contraception, the question regarding it is morality makes it seemingly unlikely to be implemented, or useful. Considering the mentioned arguments are all considered highly controversial, the importance of remaining unbiased and factually correct cannot be