this topic has been in hot debate for years. Opinions on whether it should

be taught range from the idea that teaching it will decrease teen pregnancy

and sexually transmitted diseases to the belief that it should be banned

nationwide. Those who agree that sex education should be taught in school

also believe that this type of education needs to start as early as

kindergarten to ensure sexually responsible adults. Those who don't agree

with this type of education feel that children should not be subjected to

this kind of 'talk'. They feel that if sex education must be in the school

system, then abstinence should be taught instead of just the safe-sex

program. Either way people look at it, sex education will most likely never

leave the school systems anytime soon. People need to realize that teaching

sex education does not reduce teen pregnancy or reduce the risk of sexually

transmitted diseases. Instead, it warns them about the risks and

consequences, the rest is up to them.

Parents feel that if sex education in school is taught, then it will

corrupt their children and make them want to go out and experim

been taught in school. Many seem to have the idea "that it can't happen to

pregnancy. What teachers need to do is offer an all round sex-education

placing the students in situations where they have to decide whether they

class, teaching all aspects of sexuality. Covering responsibility,

having sex, they will want to try it out themselves. In fact, some parents

that the school systems are not doing their job correctly. Therefore, in

teach about responsible sex, then it is up to the parents to do just that.

to assume that most teens are already having sex, so rarely is it ever

pregnancy and STDs -but knowledge and decision-making skills alone seem to

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