Sex Education in Schools Essay

not monitor their kids or teach them about sex/safe sex. This could potentially push away families who want to move to the Valley, because who wants their 16 year old daughter to get pregnant, or their 17 year old son to become a father at such an early age. If parents don’t want to teach their kids about sex education, I believe it is up to schools to teach them. School is a learning environment and learning about the dangers and how to practice safe sex is just as important as any other…

Sex education should be an important part of all adolescences’ education. According to many peer reviewed articles, the United States has surprisingly the highest rates in teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases.(21) In order for these rates to be controlled is through sex education. Sex education must be enforced. It is not a requirement in most schools in the United States. Due to the lack of support received by the government, most schools do not have enough funds for these programs.…

District of Columbia mandate sex education -- and eighteen require that information on contraception be provided (Toppo). With only twenty-two states and the District of Columbia mandating sex education, so many young adults and students are missing out on the proper education they need to make decisions about their sex lives. The United States is failing these young people by not mandating that sex education be taught. Forty-eight states do not mandate sex education and these kids are…

Abstaining From Common Sense: A Persuasive Essay on Why Abstinence Education Should Not Be Taught In Schools In the U.S. the states with the highest teen birth rates all either do not mandate sex education or stress abstinence-only education (Lowen). Almost all studies on teens health indicate that abstinence only programs should not be used in schools. According to Leslie Kantor’s article, “Abstinence-only Education Violating Students' Rights to Health Information,” the 1996 Welfare Reform bill…

Many sexually active teens are not fully educated on the dangers of unprotected sex. Instead, they are told that abstinence is the only option for teens. This method of sexual education leads to more teen pregnancy over comprehensive sexual education. When comparing the abstinence only versus comprehensive sex education, comprehensive sex education was associated with a 50% lower teen pregnancy risk (“National”). In Illinois alone, 22,660 teenage women between the ages of fifteen and nineteen…

If you were to look at sex education compared to that of a decade ago, I could reassure you that there is so much that we have learned. Covering topics such as sexual education and gay rights are not things your mother learned about in her sex education class. However, a lot of these topics are relevant today especially with laws being passed, supporting topics like, sex education and gay rights. In the film, The Education of Shelby Knox, we can see how generations pass have an effect on today’s…

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…

While there is no concise definition on what sex education is due to the varying degrees of how it is taught, comprehensive sex education is defined by the Advocates of Youth Organization as a course that “teaches about abstinence as the best method for avoiding STDs and unintended pregnancy, but also teaches about condoms and contraception to reduce the risk of unintended pregnancy and of infection with STDs, including HIV, [and]…also teaches interpersonal and communication skills and helps…

Let’s Talk About Sex was the documentary presented to the students. The documentary was about the different view on the topic of sex education. The documentary films the views of the parents and their children and what their thought are. The documentary compares the difference views between families from the United States and Netherlands. The document shows how a family from the U.S (Kelsey’s family) hold a strong relationship, yet secrets were kept. Kelsey’s mother was more closed minded about…

(East, 1999). In the past, limited research in Mississippi has only focused on a small sector of education using the abstinence-only or abstinence-plus approaches. There is a need for education that goes beyond the abstinence approaches that acknowledges that teenagers are sexually active and are becoming sexually active at very young ages. Sexual health education should be placed in the schools, homes, and community centers and organizations. A parent’s attitude about teenage pregnancy…