Sex Education and Condoms Should Be Offered in Secondary Schools.

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The whole argument about distributing condoms in school has been going on for a long while now. Everyday thousands of teenagers are putting themselves at risk for pregnancies, sexually transmitted diseases because they choose to have unprotected sex. Sex education must be mandatory and condoms should be distributed in secondary schools. I strongly agree with this statement for several reasons. Firstly, you can't keep teens from having sex so you might as well encourage them to have safe sex. One thing teenagers cannot stand is someone telling them what they should do; therefore, just educate them on every means of protection. Yes, abstinence is the only fool proof way of complete protection, but the teenagers who decide not to wait need to know the safest way possible to prevent these issues. I would say it should be up to the parents to give guidance to their children teaching them what is right. In most cases, parents wait until it is too late to talk to their kids. They themselves might have had the same attitude and wouldn’t listen to anybody so they cannot lead by example. Other parents want to be in denial and say their kids aren't going to do that and when they realize, they are so ashamed. A lot of teens don't want to talk to their parents about it or go to a store and buy condoms. So I think if they were readily available they would be used more. Secondly, teenagers should not be having sex at all. Not every teenager is going to have sex; however, this is a growing problem that is resulting in teenage mothers and deadly, even incurable diseases. Schools are trying to hide this issue. They need to stop and make the decision to at least provide some means of protection to the student body. The teens that are sexually active will most likely have sex with or without a condom, so providing them with total confidentiality would make these teens

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