...and white. The debates about sexual education in U.S. public schools are no different. While the ideas of abstinence and holistic learning of sex contradict each other at first, they can coexist if one looks at the bigger picture along with its consequences. Thus, while the discourse concerning sexual education in public schools may depict abstinence-only and fully comprehensive sexual education as conflicting ideologies, they are actually quite similar. This is significant because a comprehensive education actually adds to the abstinence message while supporting (instead of shaming) youth and their right to information that could lead to safer and more responsible sexual choices. While the vast majority of...
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...Introduction: Sexual education teaches people that sexuality is a natural, normal, healthy part of life and sexual education is needed in high schools to teach young adults not only the dangers of sex such as unwanted pregnancies or STDs, as well as the many other aspects to sex that aren’t spoken about such as identifying ones sexual preference (gay, straight etc.), relationships, protection, the emotional aspect of it, the maturity required and how sex actually works and not just the sexual organs which is what is usually taught to young adults who are going through adolescence which is a very challenging time for many. Sexual education should clarify the issues involved with the topic and not confuse people. Sexual education is needed everywhere...
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...Sexual education is a conversation that few people instigate. For many parents it stirs up dread, knowing that eventually they will need to have “the talk” with their children. This extends to the kids themselves, who may have questions, but feel awkward and embarrassed about speaking up. However uncomfortable it may be, sexual education is an important discussion we need to have as a nation. According to the National Center for Health Statistics, 1 out of 5 teens have intercourse before age 15 and more than 50% have had oral sex by the same age. Looking past our discomfort and personal beliefs, we can clearly see: there are a striking amount of American teens become sexually active. In spite of this, the American educational system is not taking the necessary steps to ensure that teenagers completely understand being sexually active and all its moral implications. The...
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...The teaching of sexual education shouldn’t be controversial. Everybody has their own beliefs and ways of going about sex education, however it is so important that young individuals get basic knowledge about growth and development, reproduction, human anatomy, and anything else that may pertain to sexual education. I believe that sex education should be taught nationwide to protect our youth not only from pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases but also from sexual abuse and physical, emotional, and mental destruction. People need to come to terms with reality to realize that simply teaching children and teenagers about abstinence is not even close to enough to keep them protected. Nowadays, many teenagers will do as they please whether...
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...Teaching LGBTQ inclusive sexual education shows that humans have a diverse array of sexual orientations and gender identities, regardless of a person's moral views. Teaching one sexual orientation, and ignoring the others, and suggesting that a heterosexual marriage is the only acceptable relationship for sexual activity makes invisible experiences for LGBTQ people and presents an inaccurate view on how human sexualitly works (Goodman). Sex education can be one of the few, if not the only, reliable source for information on a person’s sexuality and sexual health. Multiple studies show that well designed and well-implemented sex education can reduce the risk of behavior and support a positive view on sex, reducing teen pregnancy and STI rates. In the United States, the STD and HIV rates are extremely high in certain...
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...Nowadays, most people’s experience with sexual education in school is sitting in a classroom with about 20 other students, while your gym teacher awkwardly tells you not to have sex before you’re married. The irony is about maybe half of those students have already had sex before and your gym teacher is only teaching you this because the school gets more funding if he does. This key flaw is letting faith-based organizations have a hand in teaching you one of your basic human rights of youth. Abstinence-only sexual education is inefficient and morally flawed due to its aim to promote one specific set of social values, and the group most affected by this is the youth. A bit of background on the origin of these abstinence only programs. In 1981,...
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...have talked to their children about sexual education, leaving eighteen percent to figure it out on their own. Everyone has their own opinion on if sexual education should be taught in public schools and one may find it crazy that kids don't get a good education on sexual activity, and others find it crazy that kids learn that. If every state required a good sexual education no one could do anything about it and everyone would get the same education. Believe it or not there's much rivalry whether or not sexual education should taught since the 1960's. There has been much controversy about this for a long time, and groups against it affected a lot. How else would the children who's parents don't talk to them find out. In the 1970's 20 states voted to restrict or abolish sexual education being taught in schools. By the end of the decade only three states had required sexual education. (Kentucky, Maryland, and New Jersey) Classes for sexual education would teach a wide range of topics. Such...
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...In 1597, Sir Francis Bacon said, “Knowledge is power” and if that is true, then the more we know, the more choices a person can make on their own and the more individual power a person has. For children, trusted adults information is the “be all to end all” and usually the younger they are, the less questions are asked. This is helpful if the information being received is always correct, but in some cases it is not and that wrong information can spread like wildfire among young people. With sexual-education in public schools, students can be taught the correct material so that they can be educated and use their knowledge as power. I went to school in Washington state, and when we got to a certain age we age-appropriate sexual education. A permission slip was signed by my mother, and at approximately 12 years old, boys and girls were separated with familiar teachers and classmates of the same gender and taught about how our bodies were changing. Females learned about menstrual cycles, pads and “why tampons really do fit” while the males learned about why they were getting hair in places they didn’t before, and why their bodies were changing in different ways as well. I was among classmates who were my friends and teachers who I trusted and we were allowed to ask questions like “Does it hurt?” and “Does my brother know about this?” Samples were given out for us to see, feel and understand and alleviated the possibility of the wrong information getting in to our sponges of brains...
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...Teen Pregnancy/Sexual Education and the Advocate's Role Kimberley Thornton-Candley BSHS/442 May 23. 2010 Latera Davis Teen Pregnancy/Sexual Education and the Advocate's Role Advocacy is a big part of the human services field, people need someone who will assist with services many need. A human services worker can speak on behalf of the client and carry out different things the client has to do. One of the groups in need of advocates is youth/teens. Many areas that are targeted for youth but teen pregnancy and sexual education are the most important. Teen pregnancy and sexual education has had its surges and declines over the past 10 years. But, it has been shown that sexual education can help to assist in the decline to teen pregnancy. It has been shown by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that in 2006, there were 435,436 births to mothers aged 15–19 years in the United States, a birth rate of 41.9 per 1,000 women in this age group (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, n.d.). This shows that this is a problem that continues to affect our communities all over the USA. This is not directed at one race of people but each race are looking at the high rate of pregnancy. “After declining steadily from 1991–2005, birth rates for 15- to19-year-olds increased significantly between 2005 and 2006 in 26 states from all regions of the country. This increase was not seen among younger teens: birth rates for 10- to14-year-olds declined from 0.7 to 0...
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...Why Sexual Education Should Be Taught In Public Schools In today’s society where children are exposed to sex through various media outlets, the need for sexual education in public schools is necessary. Instead of abstinence-only education, which teaches refraining from sexual activity until marriage, today’s youth needs to be informed about the various aspects of sexuality including pregnancy, contraception, STDs, and abstinence. According to a survey conducted by National Public Radio, The Kaiser Family Foundation, and Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government, ninety percent of American parents believe that comprehensive sexual education should be taught in public schools to students in grades 7 through 12. This type of education encourages abstinence, but also teaches proper condom use and other contraceptive methods to protect youth from unwanted pregnancies and STD (“Sex Education in America”). In order to reduce the risk of teenage pregnancy and the spread of sexually transmitted diseases, Douglas Bernard Kirby, Ph.D. from the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy states in his 2007 publication of Emerging Answers: To be effective, such programs must be straightforward and specific; for example, they might discuss realistic situations that could lead to unprotected sex and methods for avoiding those situations, for remaining abstinent, and for using condoms and other contraceptives. (Kirby 16) Even though studies have shown mixed results...
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...avoid welcoming my father home for about two weeks. II. Most of us in this room were raised in a sexual time period without any guidance which has led us to be very confused about topics that are often considered taboo. The most important of which is sexually transmitted infections, also known as STIs. Besides the horrible picture that they plagued us with when they crammed 40 pubescent kids for a quick STI seminar in high school, what do we really know about them? III. STIs are caused...
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...2. Discuss in 150 words your critical understanding of R.A. 7877 – “AN ACT DECLARING SEXUAL HARASSMENT UNLAWFUL IN THE EMPLOYMENT, EDUCATION OR TRAINING ENVIRONMENT, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES”. RA 7877 was enacted to prevent and lawfully punished any unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature constitute sexual harassment when this conduct explicitly or implicitly affects an individual's employment, unreasonably interferes with an individual's work performance, or creates an intimidating, hostile, or offensive work environment." Its concerns were to value the dignity of every individual, enhance the development of human resources, guarantee respect for human rights, and uphold the dignity of workers, employees, applicants for employment, students or those undergoing training, instruction or education. Any person who commit work/education or training related sexual harassment was imprisonment of not less than one (1) month nor more than six (6) months, or a fine of not less than Ten thousand pesos (P10,000) nor more than Twenty thousand pesos (P20,000), or both such fine and imprisonment at the discretion of the court. 1. Prepare a comprehensive analysis of the three systems of education namely: a. Basic b. Technical c. Tertiary Basic Education Technical Education Tertiary Education Government Agency Provider: DepEd Government Agency Provider: TESDA Government Agency Provider: CHED Legal Basis:...
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...that the Aboriginal, Iranian and East Asian Ethnic Groups Face Within the Sexual Health Education System in North America INTRODUCTION By: Sana Ahmed & Sabrina (insert last name) **QUOTE ON PREGNANCY & STI RATES AMONGST MINORITIES IN CANADA & USA The Canadian sexual health education system varies geographically, however North America’s main objective is to decrease the rates of sexually transmitted diseases and teenage pregnancy. As young adults become sexually active, in North America the education system implies that young boys and girls acquire knowledge in order to save themselves from taking on responsibilities they cannot afford, like unplanned pregnancies. Sexual education in Canada and USA is meant to provide the necessary tools for young adults so they are able to make the best choices when they start engaging in sexual activities. There are many approaches to sexual education; some teach abstinence while others use scare-tactics to avoid sexual activity. This sort of sexual education follows the cultural norm of the Canadian society; grasping the idea that having sex is not taboo or forbidden until marriage. No matter what approach is used, it is important to make sure that the sexual education programs are including all ethnic groups. This paper will explore how adolescents from the Aboriginal, Iranian and East Asian ethnicities are benefiting from the sexual health education system in North America. ABORIGINAL ETHNIC GROUP By: Sabrina IRANIAN ETHNIC...
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...unexplainable, but while we are glooming with happiness our parents are entering an alarming state of unease, because we are not immune to the hidden danger of rape, and other sexual crimes that happen in our new found “comfort zone.” Every new day is an example of a college potentially mishandling the sexual assault of one of its students. While sex crimes are on the rise in America’s higher-education system, so does the institutions negligence. The purpose of this paper is to try and unravel the injustices and misconceptions of what...
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...Discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation For the purpose of this assignment I selected the state of New York. I selected New York because it is considered one of the trends setting states for celebrities, fashion, partying, and in many people eyes the place to be on the east coast. New York was the 11th state in the United States and its capital is in Albany. It is probably remembered the most today because of the attack that occurred there on September 11, 2001 on the twin towers. Famous attractions like Central Park, the Statue of Liberty and Times Square are also located there. New York protects discrimination against gay/homosexual people with the Sexual Orientation Non-Discrimination Act (SONDA), which took effect in 2003. According to Office of the NYS Attorney General (2015) “SONDA, prohibits discrimination on the basis of actual or perceived sexual orientation in employment, housing, public accommodations, education, credit, and the exercise of civil rights”. New York already has legislation that complies with the federal regulations of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and other federal agencies the prevent discrimination based on race, sex, and religion. They have also added the term sexual orientation to other state law that prevents discrimination based on Civil Rights, Human Rights and Education Laws. SONDA defines sexual orientation as a male or female who is bisexual, homosexual, heterosexual or if a person is perceived to be in...
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