Mckenna French
Sex education should be available to all students no matter where they attend school. Students should have the right to learn about safe sex for all sexual and gender identities. Teachers don’t really go into depth with teaching sexual safety, and just learning about condoms and STDs is not enough for students to even pay attention. Students need to understand all of the consequences that come with not practicing safe sex. According to Planned Parenthood, most students lack the knowledge they should have about things like birth control, HIV prevention and how to communicate and properly make decisions regarding sexual activities. “The gap between the sex education students should receive and what they actually receive is wide. According to the 2014 CDC School Health Profiles, fewer than half of high schools and only a fifth of middle schools teach all 16 topics recommended by the CDC as essential components of sex education.” This goes to show that sex education taught in schools is inadequate because teachers are only brushing over the bare minimum and do not actually share the necessary information required for students to be prepared to make smart and safe decisions regarding their sexual health.
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