My Writing Portfolio Save Lives, Teach Sex - Persuasive Paper

Sinara Isoyan
E&C 141-A Persuasive Writing
Instructor: Dr. Ken Monteith
Date: March 3, 2017
Persuasive Paper
Save Lives, Teach Sex
Talking about sex may seem utterly disgraceful and writing about it may be even more
so, but I’m going to risk that anyway in hopes that my argument will prove worthy. Children
growing up in a country like Armenia, a country that takes pride in being conservative, are not
taught even the basics of sex education. Of course, there are so many other countries out there
that are deprived of this subject, but since I don’t know a lot about those other countries, the
focus of this paper will be on Armenia and how the introduction of sex education in Armenia’s
schools will benefit the country as a whole. It’s a well-known fact that schools play a vital role in
the development and education of children, and the subjects offered and taught will remain with
the children as they grow older. Everything that children learn in school will, to an extent,
remain in their brains for a very long time and all that information will be the basis of their future
development. Armenia’s schools consider subjects like mathematics, physics, and biology to be
of such high importance and completely ignore other absolutely crucial subjects, like sex
education among many others. School subjects that are stimulating to the brain, like chess, are
actually offered in schools and have recently been made mandatory for everyone to study. I’m
not saying that these subjects are unnecessary, because in reality, stimulating the brain is
wonderful and probably will make children smarter and sharper in the long run. I’m saying that
if a school can offer such a challenging subject like chess, then it can just as easily offer a
significant subject that will develop and educate children as they mature; a subject that can and
will make children make the right decisions, a subject that will help in the prevention of
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