Sexual Health Curriculum Reflection

I thoroughly enjoyed participating in the weekly discussions because my group was very interactive and knowledgeable. Although, I could have talked about any of the topics, I am excited to reflect upon the sexual health curriculum discussion. This topic presents my best work because I brought a lot of points and facts to the discussion which allowed me to engage in comprehensive conversations with my peers. Also, the quality and flow of this discussion was outstanding. My peers opened my eyes to many things regarding the sexual health curriculum that I did not know and now I feel very educated regarding this topic. I am very passionate about educating our youth about sexual health and I think this showed in my discussion.

I learned many

Growing up I went to a public school, so I was unaware of the differences in the sexual health curriculum taught to Catholic students. I was very surprised to learn they do not teach students about safe sex. This is very alarming because many students are having sex anyways and if they are not educated about the consequences of having unprotected sex this could lead to increased transmission and contraction of STI’s, and unplanned

First of all, it can be hard to discuss your feelings about sensitive topics with people you don’t know, especially when it personally affects you. There were times I held back personal information because I was worried about what students might say or who they would tell outside of discussion. Moreover, I found that a lot of the posts were similar and redundant. This is good in the sense that everyone is agreeing with one another, however, it can be difficult to build on those conversations if everyone is saying the same things over and over. I think students should be encouraged to think out side of the box and talk about topics that haven’t been