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Should Schools Be Allowed To Teach Kids About Human Sexuality?

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Sex education is a hot button issue for education in America. Should schools be allowed to teach kids about human sexuality? Or should those topics be taught by the parents? The principle of benefit maximization is used in regards to sex education in schools. While some parents do not believe that sex is a topic for schools, while other parents don’t feel equipped to teach their kids about sex. There is a greater benefit to teach kids about human sexuality, which will positively affect more people, than it will harm. A few citizens of Corinth had already complained about the school district offering a human sexuality class. Community members said that sex is a subject better left for the parents and if taught in schools, would inevitably
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So many different conclusions could be drawn from the same facts. Some people believe that their children should not know about sexual topics. “ I think there is the idea that children should not be exposed to the things that are all troubling and disturbing to them.” - (NY Times), but its not true, if this generation has no knowledge about sex and its bad effects then how could they ignore these mistakes. We need to teach about sexual effects t present generation so the could learn something about it and try to avoid it.

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For Goodness Sex, by Al Vernacchio, is a welcome relief from the two previous books; Girls & Sex and Man Interrupted, as the focus is about sexuality as a whole; gender, sexual orientation, etc., rather than on the culture of females and males. In a chapter titled “Gender Myths,” Vernacchio (2014) asks the question, “male and female, is that all there is” (Vernacchio, A., p. 112, 2014)? In teaching his class on Sexuality and Society, Vernacchio asks these questions and questions similar, demonstrating that he takes into consideration that there are feelings at stake and keeps in mind the human aspect of sex and sexuality as he is intentionally behind challenging students to foresee and develop their sense of values about sex, instead of constantly being “in the moment.”

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“More than one in five adolescents (21% of females and 24% of males) received abstinence education without receiving instructions about birth control in 2002, compared with 8-9% in 1995” mentioned by Guttmacher Institution. Sex education is schooling students in grade school about the issues relating to human sexuality that involves emotional relations and responsibilities, human analogy, sexual activity, sexual reproduction, age of consent, reproductive rights, safe sex, birth control and sexual abstinence. Comprehensive sex education is a controversial issue that many spin their heads about due to its confrontation it’s had over the past several years. This issue in particular is a topic that many cannot come to an agreement because of many

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Government should add more programs into schools to inform students on sex education and supply them with free contraceptives for the people who are unable to purchase it. When the government try to avoid the issue by eliminating sex education. It will only worsen the issue then to solve the problem. Children need to be able to learn sex through a traditional and non-traditional classroom environment. The knowledge from schools, family and clergy give children the chance to receive education through different people perspective.

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Parents teach their kids to walk, to talk and good manners, which is all beneficial to a child. However, when it comes to teaching a child about sex, most parents tends to feel uncomfortable. Feeling uncomfortable does not change the fact that kids are maturing faster and they need the education to help them make decisions which will prevent them from making bad choices. For parents who tends to feel this way, sex Ed curriculum will be beneficial to both parents and children. The information kids gained will not only teach them about their genitalia, also about inappropriate touching, STD’s and early pregnancy.

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People ashamed while talking about the sex and don’t want to talk by thinking that what images they would have in their society if they talk openly in this topic or rather they think that talking on this topic will down their prestige in society. Since a long time sex education has been a great challenge in regarding whether to consider it in school education or not. There had been many disputes about it. It’s because our Nepali traditional society believes that including sex education in high school education will destroy their children’s character and morality as per them it make them aware about sexual intercourse and they try to do it with practice. Having a

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