Sex education in schools should be mandatory

1. Many children start out by learning from their parents. Parents often find it better to explain. 6th grade for you? I didn't learn til I was in 8th grade and I'm glad. Why? Because it isn't something we should involve ourselves with. Sure it could happen but sex isn't something that should be occuring or even really talked about by 6th graders especially since they generally don't even get the full scope of what they are saying. By increasing awareness of sex at the age of a 6th grader, they are too young to have the morality and maturity to truly understand the consequences over the benefits. I know VERY few 6th graders who, if having been taught about sex, would be able to differ when it would be good and when it would be bad simply because they don't have the maturity to understand and completely weigh the pros/cons. 2. I will not tell you why STDs spreading faster and poverty of homeless mothers will only increase is a good thing. It isn't but that won't be the cause. See, by the time most kids are 10-15, they have had either parents or friends explain about sex or they have found out. This goes back to earlier. If 6th graders don't have the maturity to know when it is right and wrong, then they will just themselves continue to increase the STD rate. I argue that without this awareness, STDs won't spread faster and poverty of homeless mothers won't increase. 3. I can find more than one. *Many children (this is just a summary) won't have the maturity to keep from sex once they know all about it. We often say, "Oh, I know all about it so now I know how to not get hurt" and then we go ahead and get hurt. This is just one thing that will happen by mandatory sex education. *Parents want to be able to teach their children these things often. While it is awkward for some parents, it is important that the parents explain it so the child will get the right idea. You could say, "What if that parent is a prostitue or a drug addict, etc." That is a good point but if we mandate sex education in schools, we could also directly violate certain religion principles of some people by teaching it that early. *Finally, at least a few percentages of that 47% of students that had sex are most likely lying. It was a big thing in the 80s or 90s (don't remember which) where you were popular if you weren't a virgin and the same kind of thing happens today. Many people will say it just because it makes them special and such. Second, sex education can help that number increase. If you tell them how not to get hurt, they could go ahead and take measures to not get hurt and then, because those measures were taken, find it OK to have sex since nobody would get hurt by it. 4 (you numbered your last point wrong). I agree. Sex is not gross. But parents should have the option to withold that information, especially since some religions don't want that taught at such a young age. There are many ways for it to be "not gross". It is unfortunate how that is seen but many parents will feel as if schools went behind their back to teach this information that they don't want taught. Sex is not inherently gross but much of what we see today has made it so. Porn, prostitution, etc have made it vulgar. By increasing that knowledge, kids will want to start "seeing" so to say or even doing themselves. This is harmful to them as schools won't teach that porn is bad, thus kids will go ahead and watch it, causing problems in morality. Conclusion: Overall, while sex education is important, it shouldn't be mandatory in schools. Parents need to have the right to say yes or no. The younger kids get when knowing this stuff, the lower their maturity is, increasing the chance they will have sex simply because they didn't understand how STDs could affect them or they are just to young to truly care and think that the NOW world is the only world that matters.