Comprehensive Sex Education

I will use this round for my opening arguments, and use the next round for rebuttals. Introduction: There are parent’s who don’t want their children to be taught sex education in school, just as there are teachers who feel that it’s not their job to teach sex education. There are some families, who have strict morals. They may encourage their children, not to have sex, until they are married. Their parents may have talked to them about the risks, and bad outcomes of having sex already. When any type of sex education is taught, including abstinence, it gets kids to thinking, and talking about it with their friends. Some of their friends may have already has sex, and tell their friends, whom are virgins, that “it’s okay to have sex” because “Nothing bad happened” to them. Pupils may become persuaded, and tempted to go out and have sex, since their friends are doing it, this is called peer pressure. I will be arguing: 1. It's not a teachers duty to teach sex education. 2. Comprehensive sex education is innefective 3. Sex education is a waste of the goverments money. I will also touch some on immorality. C.1 It’s Not a Teacher’s Duty to Teach Sex Education A study in 2010, discovered that 1 in 3 schools are not teaching sex education properly, merely because teachers are too embarrassed to discuss it, or have little knowledge on the topic. [1] “The report said sex had been "squeezed out" from the curriculum because "since the topics were particularly sensitive, some teachers felt uncomfortable in teaching such demanding themes…Students may still be subject to embarrassment or excitable by subject matter. If not taught properly, sex education in school can become a matter of ridicule and students may not take any interest in it. ” How are we to know, that the teachers are teaching this effectively? Who says that the program of sex education they’re teaching is proper? Are we asking children if they are even comfortable with being taught on such a topic at their age? When you’re young, you may make sex jokes with friends and such, but not feel comfortable to talk to an adult about sex. When a teacher whom is un-experienced in the topic, and nervous, it causes a chain reaction, making children nervous themselves, and confused. Especially if the teacher doesn’t exactly know what he, or she is teaching. [2] “Mostly teachers who are given the task of teaching sex education to students are not experts and have vague ideas about sexual health themselves. This is even more harmful as incorrect information is extremely lethal as it can actually leave a wrong impression on the students. Children have an impressionable mind and incorrect information imparted at an early age can actually transform them into ignorant adults. ” I think we can all agree, that parents are the most qualified to teach their own children about sex, considering they have had a child, unless the child was adopted. They also can teach children what they (as in the parents) want their children to know. Maybe they would rather teach their children about abstinence, rather than comprehensive. C.2 Comprehensive Sex Education is Ineffective. Why do we study history? Well, for 1 main reason I can think of, is to not repeat mistakes from the past. We can do the same thing with comprehensive sex education. Comprehensive sex originated in Sweden in 1950, and the ideas and teachings spread throughout the world. In the late 70’s many studies were done to show that comprehensive teachings are in fact, ineffective. [3] “From 1971 to 1981, government funding at all levels for contraceptive education increased by 4,000 percent. During that time, teen pregnancies increased by 20 percent and teen abortions nearly doubled.5 “ “A 1986 Johns Hopkins University study concluded that comprehensive sex education did not reduce teen pregnancies,6 a finding replicated by other studies. ” “A 1986 Lou Harris Poll, commissioned by Planned Parenthood (a leading sponsor of comprehensive sex education), found that teens who took a comprehensive sex education course (including contraceptive education) were significantly more likely to initiate sexual intercourse than teens whose sex education courses did not discuss contraceptives.7 “ As study in 2002, showed that sex education had very little influence on teenager’s sexual lifestyle, and choices. [4] One of the biggest studies ever conducted on the impact of sex education delivered by teachers suggested that specially designed programme aimed at Scottish secondary school pupils had no more impact on adolescents' sexual activity or risk taking than conventional lessons although it increased their knowledge of sexual health and marginally improved relationships. And a review of research in the US and Canada indicated that pregnancy prevention programmes for 11-18, including sex education classes, family planning clinics and other outside school initiatives had not delayed sexual intercourse, improved birth control or reduced teenage pregnancies. ` C.3 Sex Education is a waste of Money. [4] From “1971 to 1986 the government spent $2 billion of taxpayer’s money on sex education. During this same period, the number of girls who became pregnant while using contraceptives rose 266%. There was also a 107% increase in those who had abortions and a 93% increase to those who contracted STDs. ” The purpose of comprehensive sex edu, is to teach kids, and teens how to have safe sex. Either A) the reason why the rates are high, is because teachers are not teaching kids properly, or B) kids honestly don’t care, at all. Kids and Teens will do what they please. [4] “Usually a successful program is not brought by teachers, it’s brought by parents,” says Liz Sanchez, curriculum coordinator for the ) . “Get even one parent you know and bring them in. Educational systems respond to parents. ” This goes back to my beginning arguments. Teachers don’t feel comfortable teaching sex to other people’s children, they may have the right to, but it’s simply not their job. C.4 Immorality of Sex Education If we look of the definition of “Comprehensive Sex Education” it will read: [5] “teaches about abstinence as the best method for avoiding STDs and unintended pregnancy, but also teaches about condoms and contraception to reduce the risk of unintended pregnancy and of infection with STDs, including HIV. It also teaches interpersonal and communication skills and helps young people explore their own values, goals, and options. ” But in today’s current teachings, we are making children perform uncomfortable exercises, and parent’s aren’t comfortable, nor are they happy about it. [6] “Most comprehensive sex-ed curricula contain sexually explicit and offensive materials. For example, curricula have students practice unrolling condoms on bananas, cucumbers, or model phalluses. Curricula also contain discussions of anal sex and homosexual role-playing and encourage teens to practice mutual masturbation and watch erotic movies. Much material in “abstinence plus” curricula would be alarming to parents. ” For example, the curriculum Be Proud! Be Responsible! instructs teachers to: “Invite [students] to brainstorm ways to increase spontaneity and the likelihood that they’ll use condoms…. Examples: …Store condoms under mattress; Eroticize condom use with partner…Use condoms as a method of foreplay. … Think up a sexual fantasy using condoms…. Act sexy/sensual when putting condoms on…. Hide them on your body and ask your partner to find it. Wrap them as a present and give to your partner before a romantic dinner. Tease each other manually while putting on the condom” I think we all can agree that these sorts of things, stated above, should not be a focus of a child in middle school, or high-school. By having kids perform these exercise, and giving them ideas, we are almost convincing them to go out and have sex, and there is always risks involve while having sex, even when using a condom, because they are not always effective. I wish my opponent good luck on the next round! :) Sources: [1]. http://www.telegraph.co.uk... [2] . http://www.onlymyhealth.com... [3] Where-Sex-Education-Went-Wrong [4]. http://www.battlefortruth.org... [5]. http://www.advocatesforyouth.org... [6] . http://www.battlefortruth.org...