The Importance of Comprehensive Sex-Education in Schools Sex is huge, sex is important; everyone cares and has something to say about sex. Sex oozes from every pore of the culture and no kid can avoid it. Are teens getting enough knowledge on sex and how to prevent teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases,(STD’s)? Comprehensive sex-education promotes abstinence but it also includes information about contraceptives and STD’s, while promoting safe sex if a student chooses to engage in sexual activity before marriage. Me, personally, my parents did not give me the birds and the bees talk, but I was afforded the opportunity to take sex-education in high school.
You Haven’t Had Sex Yet? : How Heckerling Argues That Sex Is Essential to the Teenage Plight The most brazen argument Heckerling makes in Fast Times at Ridgemont High is that of the varying teenage takes on sex and just how vital it is to a high school student’s self and social images, however little they know about it. Heckerling depicts sex from a variety of characters’ standpoints. The easiest identifiable character in the film in which depicts this struggle with sex is Stacy Hamilton (Jennifer Jason Leigh) (IMDB). Even as a young freshman at fifteen years old, Stacy struggles with the fact that she remains a virgin.
9 April 2012 The article “Selling Safe Sex in Public Schools” by Michelle Bryant is about a young teenage girl by the name of Shelby Knox who fought to get comprehensive sex education in public schools. Shelby was interviewed by the author Michelle Bryant. Knox mentioned during her interview that safe sex education should be taught rather than teaching the students about abstinence only. Even though, Shelby has pledged abstinence until marriage, she is also aware of the consequences of having unprotected sex. The young girl went on to explain how practicing safe sex will help lower the rate of STDs and prevent unwanted pregnancies.
Ellen’s brother Vance, had stayed with their birth dad at Metairie, Louisiana. DeGeneres was raised as a Christian Scientist until the age of thirteen. One down side was, Ellen was sexually abused by her stepfather, while her mother was struggling through breast cancer. Ellen’s mother would be crying about her divorce and Ellen would make her happy from how funny she is. Overall, her mother was still one of her strong supporters even though she was gay.
It was her mistake, so she is going to take on her responsibility, and be a great parent for her unborn child. She said, “If it was my choice i would have got pregnant after college” (Duval). Luckily, her boyfriend, her family and friends were unexpectedly supportive of this major change in Harley’s life. Everyone preached to Harley about how tough it would be with having a baby, she didn’t think anything of it. The only worry in their minds was Harley and her junior year of high school; hoping and expecting she would finish
Practicing abstinence may be the most utterly method for minimizing this rate, but it’s an irrational method. It would not educate them on the life changing risks correlated with sexual intercourse. Providing a clear and precise curriculum in sex education focussed on career goals, sexually transmitted diseases, healthy relationships, the results of being a young parent, and facts on contraceptives would be most beneficial. Educating minors on how sexual activity at a young age can drastically change their lives would greatly impact the reduction of teen pregnancy. Teen pregnancy proceeds as a major issue with more than half of all teenagers in the United States stating that they had participated in sexual intercourse at least one point before high school ended.
The abuse ended when she was fourteen years old; Oprah credits her father for saving her from the abuse. Oprah had a son when she was 14 years old who died as an infant.Because of her teen pregnancy, she often had suicidal thoughts. As a teen, she learned 20 new vocabulary words a week and she was crowned Miss Black Tennessee in 1972. In highschool, Oprah was elected President of Student Council and she was also selected “most popular” in high school as a senior. She graduated from Nicolet High School
Summary Sex education is used to inform young people on relationships and intimacy. It also is used to inform them on all the negative outcomes sex can cause like diseases and unwanted pregnancies. Yet, programs like abstinence don’t really help people to stop having sex. Abstinence-only programs tend to take credit of the decrease on teen pregnancy but in reality it is the fact that 88% of teens have been taught in school about HIV and STDs. There are 3 federal programs that fund for abstinence-only education getting $102 million in the year of 2002.
Many people question if it is effective, or if it is necessary to discipline. Recently in Texas, two parents complained that their daughters had been paddled hard enough to develop bruises and burn-like red marks. The Springtown school board voted to amend their corporal punishment rules. However, they did not abolish the practice, they expanded it to allow teachers and administrators of the opposite gender to punish
Should sex education be taught in schools? There have been many debates over this. Studies show parents say that sex education only destroys the morality of people because they think that sex education teaches students about how sexual intercourse is done. Although sex education lowers the morality of people by teaching students how to use condoms and contraceptives, it should be taught in primary school and secondary school because its a prevents sexual diseases and teenage pregnancy, it is indeed a need in case of parents’ absence, and it gives children the idea of what is right and what is wrong. Research shows that teens are more sexually active now than before.