I'm debating in my debate class why sex ed shouldn't be in schools. Any help would be appreciated. It's a morality debate so I'm using a lot of opinion not all my own though. In a completely unrelated statement. Sword and Poker 2 FTW!
Sex-ed isn't actually sex-ed. It's usually just a class on how to not get an STD and why you should take showers. Why not teach it? The people who are against it are generally being irrational. There's the argument about abstinence, but parents need to take care of that. Their teachers aren't going to sway them one way or the other.
Ha I know. I'm merely DEBATING the opposite. Btw they don't really emphasize a parent-child relationship, which is one of my main points. Most people that have a problem with sex ed believe that the school has over stepped an invisible boundry of moral teachings. Sex ed is a gray area of moral issues. Most parents that don't agree with it believe that, with the schools political corectness, sex ed will be taught in such a way to influence their child in an undesirable way. i.e. no sex before marriage or homosexual relationship correctness. EDIT: also you basically stated that sex ed is a waste of tax dollars which is another reason not to teach it.
This brings up a funny story. Yesterday some kid asked me to "draw a girls penis" he was totally surious. This would be ok if we were in 1st grade but I'm in 10th grade. I just laughed and drew a weiner. he's going to be so surprised when he sees a vagina lol. Sorry I couldn't help on your debate thing...
That's a tough one 'cause sex ed really makes a lot of sense, the only sure way to keep children safe is to educate them on the subject. Let them figure it out themselves and watch teenage pregnancies and STDs skyrocket. The only reasons I can conjure up for it being a bad idea are greediness and misunderstanding on the importance of safe sex. I suppose there are religious reasons, but these kids are gonna find out anyway and if they want to have sex before marriage they'll do it with or without the education.
Sex Ed shouldn't be in schools because it is the parents responsibility and decision on how and when to teach their children about secks. Not only is it an issue of morality, but no matter how the course is structured, it will still upset some parents. Therefore instead of schools bending over backwards to try and create some perfect sex ed class, they should just scrap it and let the parents deal with it. Also learning about sex from some adult you barely know is creepy. It was for me anyway. Plus, the presence of peers tends to make the undermine the seriousness for a lot of students. The only reason Sex Ed is taught in school is because parents don't want to have to face the awkwardness of explaining it themselves at home. Those'd be my main points for why you shouldn't teach it at school.
I'd have hated for my parents to explain sex to me. I respected being taught by a professional who wasn't talking directly to me on my own. I'd have totally freaked out if my dad waltzed into my room one night and started talking about erections and sperm.
We NEED sex ed in school. The trouble is that most schools are too afraid to go into useful information. Schools need to focus on an open discussion between students and the educator. After all most parents don't invest allot of time in mentoring their kids.
Sex ed is the problem these days. If you look in the old days when it was forbidden to even think about it, let alone discuss it in public, there was no teen sex and no underage pregnancies. This open talkig may be useful but also encouraging. It should be taught only to couples thinking of having sex, not 10 year olds who find the word willy and fanny funny.
Da ef? Who told you that? I don't mean to sound like a tool, but that couldn't be more wrong. Actually, people as whole work the opposite way. The more you restrict something like sex, the more people are going to be irresponsible about it. That's why they're having that huge issue with celibate priests molesting kids. That's another discussion, but the psychology is the same. That's also how we ended up with "free-loving" hippies, etc..
Condoms The birds and the bees from your parents is awkward. Using school as an outlet to teach sex ed helps take that out. Even if you and your friends laugh about it. You still learn the important aspects of the dangers of sex. And free condoms.
