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Middle School Research Paper

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Alejandro M. Palesoo
Mrs. Fingarson
English 11
March 8

Junior Research Paper: Against Sexual Education In Middle School

Do you remember the time when we or you were in middle school and you acted like an immature person? How we all laughed and giggled when someone farted or when someone came out the bathroom with toilet paper stuck on the shoe. Remember how you reacted when you heard someone say something about sex and you once again laughed or sometimes got disgusted; how you think it’s funny but it is actually affecting our society. Students should learn and be taught information according to their age and their understanding of how life, school, and the world you can add functions instead. Teaching sexual information in middle school …show more content…

If the teacher isn’t an expert at this subject, if they weren’t taught properly students may influence sexual behavior. Most students struggle on pronouncing words like: cephalic also know as “neck” or antebrachial which is what we called the “forearm”. Students struggle saying these scientific term, some may say it’s too long or hard to say; they tend to say inappropriate words that makes it easy to say. Sexual education in some schools are extracurricular course, but most school makes them a primary course. Going back, if students were taught wrong information, they could leave with wrong thoughts causing sexual behavior. Their behavior becomes their character, some may have sexual actions at a young age, before …show more content…

In DailyMail.com, one of their story has parents outraged by a sex-ed teacher who given sex-ed lace with crude memes at Pine Valley Middle School. Most parents fear this, their children being taught inappropriate information at a young age. The teacher had one meme saying that “A girl on top still could get pregnant”, it relates to sexual information but in a rude manner. One parent complained that it was beyond r-rated, it was x-rated. Imagine your kids going to school and are being taught these highly unacceptable information in middle school. Yes they are getting ready for a life ahead , getting ready to know what being an adult is, they are still kids, and should be taught kid things, which fits their age and knowledge. According to Thinkprogress.org, Tara Culp-Ressler , wrote about most parents complaining saying that sex-ed books are same as pornography. Those students may not watch these filth, but they are being taught about it. In the book Your Health Today , parents complain that in the book it holds information and words inappropriate for their kids. Words like; orgasm, masturbation and erotic touch, some of you readers may look at this and think that it’s harsh for me to say this publicly but that’s what’s being taught to those middle school

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