Peer Response 2

· response should be a minimum of 75 words.

PEERS RESPONSE:

Hello Class,

For this week’s discussion I chose to pick the topic of sex education off the final paper topic list. The question is " Should sex education be taught in public schools"? I chose this topic because it is the only one that is related to my career field of teaching. Although I will be teaching preschoolers it is still an education question.

I think that schools should defiantly teach sex education. As far as when they should teach it I think around 6th grade would be good. if they teach sex ed. in public schools this can help prevent unplanned teen pregnancies, STI's/Std's, and help young adults learn so much they wouldn't learn if not taught in school because a lot of them would not get the information at home and Google is not the best way to learn correct information. When I was in high school, they really focused on STI's/STD's that was all. I think that schools should teach so much more. Including where everything is and what each part does (a lot of girls in high school think you pee from the same spot you put a tampon in so they take it out to pee). They also make it seem like you get pregnant so easily when you have se. While this can be very true a lot of women including myself have fertility issues (thankfully t only took me 5 months to get pregnant with my first and 10 months for my second). They also need to get the point of consent across. In high school they said no means no, but it took until my junior year for there to be an emergency meeting to change it to yes mean yes. So many people think you can change your mind in the middle of anything or that pressuring a yes out is fine and so much stuff like that. Honestly sex education is such a large topic to be properly covered and without a class that properly teaches everything students would know so little, misinformed information or nothing at all.

-Hopi