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The Efficacy of Sex Education
by Mikaela Jane Cordero
According to the NBC website Children’s Health,
many schools do not teach sex education because
parents believe schools should not have the right
to teach about sex. These parents would rather talk
about it at home; rather than allow their kids to learn
about it in an environment they feel is not properly
controlled.
sex by their senior year. This shows how important
it is to teach students how to be safe by using con-
doms and contraceptives, and how to avoid getting
any disease.
If parents are going to teach their kids about sex, a
lot of them may have wrong facts without having any
proper evidence from books.
According to the STD statistic on Teen Health web-
site shows “Among those teenagers having teen sex,
about one in four will contract an STD prior to adult-
hood.” Even if parents do not agree with letting the
schools teach about sex, schools can give strong
evidence and clear explanations of different types
of contraception and sexually transmitted diseases.
Students are more tempted to try sexual practices
without getting caught on the risks they may face,
which is why teaching them will not put the teen’s
health in danger.
The percentage of teen pregnancy and sexually trans-
mitted diseases will decrease if many students were
taught about the dangers and the awareness they Here at SLAS, students from middle school and high
should face when it comes to sex. More than half of school are required to learn about health for one se-
an average American high school student have had mester.
“T
hree in ten American girls will get pregnant
at least once before age 20,” according to the
organization called Do Something. At SLAS, health
teachers can provide a detailed explanation from
books on the process of sexual reproduction. Sex
education plays a significant role in the rates of teen
pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases among
students. As kids grow up, most of them are curious
about how things work, and adolescence is the time
of trying new things.