Persuasive Essay: Comprehensive Sex Education In Public Schools

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Sex Education in Schools
Comprehensive sex education courses are a controversial topic facing the educational system all around the world. Typically this course is taught in public schools starting as early as upper elementary to begin addressing sexually related topics such as puberty in both male and females, sexual health as well as sexuality. However, some educators, parents, and students argue this course should not be taught in schools at all! Which in result, is why sex education has ultimately gone nowhere as education has advanced. Factors such as religious principles, sex being viewed as an inappropriate topic as well as taboo, and sex being a topic that cannot be escaped hold the course back from becoming more, and fully providing the necessary information to understand this natural process. Sex education …show more content…

Sex education is the act of teaching, as well as further informing both younger and older generations about sex and its consequences, along with other sensitive issues such as sexuality and sexual health. A part of the American public feel like teaching this course does not encourage abstinence, but rather encourages teens to partake in sex. Contrary to popular belief, sex education does not encourage students to participate in the act of sex. In a survey, "approximately seventeen percent of the respondents answered that sex education does encourage them to do "it" and the remaining eighty three percent strongly disagreed" (Bleakley 2006). If anything, sex education teaches students both male and female, how to properly use condoms as a contraceptive to prevent sexually transmitted diseases and teenage pregnancy when abstinence promises fail. "Engaging in sexual activity earlier can affect our overall school performance" according to the Journal of School Health from the Northwestern State University Watson Library. Masland (n.d) stated "kids are becoming more sexually active at an earlier age, Sixty-six percent

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