Many students each year dread going to school because they know they are going to start sexual education. I was one of them, learning all of this very personal stuff from a teacher is extremely embarrassing. Most of the time each grade level learns the same thing. I remember learning the basics in 5th grade, then reviewing it again in 7th grade. Then in high school nothing changed and it was the same things I learned two previous years. Not only was it the same information, it was also the same type of lecture, pamphlets and videos. Between my time spent in fifth grade and entering my sophomore year of high school I'm sure new developments in this information and also new ways to teach sex education was introduced. Just a few new ideas to teach this information are through the aid of the Internet and computers, traditional, and of course at home. All four of these ideas should be incorporated into the school curriculum, especially high school; to help increase the amount of sex education future students will receive.

Throughout the 1990's and the millennium, the Internet has become a vastly used tool for research, education and enjoyment. Judy Hanc

Through the development for the program to teach students how to reduce your chances, came the experimental program reducing the Risk. This program has proven to have "increased contraceptive use among sexually experienced-females and lower-risk youth [...also] an increase in communication between adolescents and their parents" (Hubbard, Giese, and Rainey). Reducing the Risk is believed to work because of six highly effective "characteristics:

a) a narrow focus on a small number of specific behavioral goals; b) a foundation in social learning theory and social influence theories; c) activities that personalize information on the risks of unprotected sex and how to avoid those risks; d) training about social influences; e) support for personal values and group norms against unprotected intercourse; f) exercises to develop skill; and g) training for persons delivering the program." (Hubbard, Giese, and Rainey)

were these programs developed to educate, they were also designed to decrease pregnancy and sexually transmitted disease statistics about teens (Hubbard, Giese, and Rainey). These traditional programs slowly turned into abstinence only programs and they got away from their original concept. Educators started to believe that teaching students that abstinence is the only way to go would get them to stop having premarital sex. Although it was shown that the sexual behavior of teens was not affected due to this new type of program (Hubbard, Giese, and Rainey). These now traditional courses were being transformed into something a little bit different; educators were going to teach students how to reduce the risk by "a delay in initiating sexual intercourse' a reduction in the number of sexual partners and acts of intercourse; and an increase in contraception use" (Hubbard, Giese, Rainey).

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