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    Arguments For 1. Helps children understand the concept 2. Prevent teen pregnancy 3. Teaches safe sex 4.Less disease exposure in communities 5.Teaches morals of life Arguments Against [rank them in order of importance] 1. To young to worry about sex 2. Not age appropriate 3.May interfere with religious ideologies 4.Encourages intercorse with multiple mates 5.Prone to “curiosity” of unsafe sex Which side of this issue do you feel MOST strongly about and WHY? Use evidence to support your opinion…

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    Single Sex Education

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    The Benefits of Single Sex Education: Attended Conference Imagine attending a school full of people the same gender as you. In the classroom, during lunch and even during class breaks you are constantly surrounded by boys or girls. This is an example of what single sex education is like. Single sex education is when males and females are placed in separate classrooms, buildings or schools. This educational style took prominence during the late 18th century across the globe. However, in countries…

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    over several decades is whether sex education should be taught in public schools. Sex education is instruction on issues describing human sexuality, including sexual reproduction, safe intercourse, birth control, reproductive rights, and sexual abstinence. Some people believe that abstinence is the only way sex education should be taught, and that teaching safe sex encourages sexual relations in adolescents. However, there are several other people who think safe sex and abstinence should be…

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    There are two main ways to teach sex education, comprehensively or abstinence only. Comprehensive sex education focuses more on the idea of protecting yourself during sex. Abstinence-only education focuses on the idea of abstinence, and waiting until marriage to have sex. Teens need to be taught because of the high teen pregnancy and Sexually Transmitted Disease (STD) rates. Comprehensive sex education is more effective than abstinence-only education. In the U.S. the teen pregnancy and STD…

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    “Don’t have sex because you will get pregnant and die.” Who here has seen Mean Girls? The infamous quote by the character Coach Carr is one many are familiar with. We laugh at it. It’s ridiculous. We giggle because there is no way this would pass for sex education outside of the silver screen, right? Actually, sometimes it does, and that comes with major consequences. Abstinence-only sex education has been taught in United States public schools for decades. This has been the state-preferred…

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    Introduction Sex Ed., just the mention of it brings flashbacks to a room filled with giggling preteens. Despite that image, sex education should be taken seriously. What is taught to young people early on about sex, impacts their lives as adults. Abstinence only sex education teaches students to wait until marriage for sex, often leaving out details about STDs and pregnancy. Comprehensive sex education gives students medically accurate and evidence based information about sex, providing them…

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    For centuries the education field has experienced controversial topics and this has forced the question of which of these topics do teacher decided to educate on, and if it is appropriate for the classroom. Sex education has been amongst those topics where states have had to decide if sex education was needed and if it was deemed necessary for proper education. Sex Education had gone through a large transformation and it is more essential now more than ever with th rising teen pregancy rates and…

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    Introduction Sex education is something that is part of one’s life through their entire life. People’s bodies grow and change every day, and learning about the processes that take place is essential to maintaining good health throughout one’s life. Sadly, many people all over the world today are misinformed when it comes to sex education because of the lack of resources, overly vague information, politics, or the fact that sex education isn’t something that is approached in an accurate manner…

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    schools all over America Sex Education has been a problem in many eyes. There needs to be better educating in sex ed. The class is being corrupted due to one major topic; abstinence. Sex Education should not preach abstinence because students are being denied important information and becoming emotionally damaged. There are very important topics that are avoided. For example, STD & STI prevention and testing, pregnancy prevention as in birth control and condoms, and safe sex precautions. This…

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    Over the course of sexual education in the United States, support for such a class has been overwhelmingly positive. Influenced by issues ranging from population control to health and social norms, the course itself continues to evolve in the hopes of becoming a necessary curriculum and tool in combat versus sexual health problems. While “recent national polls show that 93% of Americans support sexuality course being taught in high school and 84 percent support such instruction in junior high”,…

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