Sex Education In Schools

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Sex is defined as the physical act in which sexual organs of two people touch and which can result in a woman having a baby. Whereas sex education is defined as an education about human sexual behavior. The purpose of sex education is not to promote sex, but to show the teenagers that there may be some serious consequences if appropriate precautions are not taken for kids are becoming sexually active at an earlier age. Although sex education should be taught in schools because it provides children with developmentary appropriate knowledge and skills, it will teach children to establish and will lower. Sex education provides students with developmentally appropriate knowledge about sex to let them understand how their …show more content…

When understanding the differences between two genders, they can learn about the differences in physical appearance and about how the two genders react when they reach puberty. It also can provide an opportunity for students to learn about their physical and mental changes due to puberty in a positive environment free from discrimination and prejudice. This also will set up a foundation for the future development in their interpersonal relationship. For example, we can have a campaign on ‘safe sex’ in school. This can help them to solve the problems about sex and also can help them to understand more about sex. After that, can prevent them from learning about sex elsewhere. They might explore it with their friends or other people instead of relying on the information from the campaign. They might search the internet and might find unhealthy topics about sex. Example, porn websites, nude pictures of others many people. They might get influenced to share the photos and videos that they found with their friends. This might become a habit. This can cause them to lose focus when the teacher is teaching. Then, their result will be affected and will make their parents worried. In brief sex education prevents children from learning about sex from the wrong sources of information, sex education also lowers the …show more content…

This is because parents think their children are too young to be given sex education and they think that the teachers in school are not trained well enough to teach about sex. Firstly, parents think sex education shouldn’t be taught in schools because children of school age are too young to be learning about sex. Parents think that being taught sex education at such a young age would be polluting their innocent minds as teachers would be teaching embarrassing and sensitive topics. Parents also think that maybe their children won’t even understand what the teacher is talking about because it’s a new thing for them and they’re too young to understand. For example, in a questionnaire done, out of the 1700 parents of the United Kingdom who were asked, about half of them disagreed with teaching sex in school and almost 48% of parents said that sex education was inappropriate. Sex education can teach them the changes they will experience when they reach puberty. That way, they can be emotionally and physically prepared for the changes. Next, parents think sex education should not be taught in schools because the teachers aren’t well trained enough to teach their children about sex. They think that if the teachers themselves are not even educated enough, then their children would be learning the wrong things. This eventually causes