the pros and cons of Sex education in schools

PROS AND CONS OF SEX EDUCATION IN SCHOOLS

Introduction

Sex education may be a good idea in the schools , but I don 't believe the kids should be given homework . Funny as this quote from Bill Cosby seems , it one way or another implies the still raging battle over whether or not to teach sex education in schools nowadays . Current debates regarding sex education resonate this pressure between opening or restricting se education in the classroom . We hear plenty about sexual education in schools : does it make students more sexual or less

br sexual ? Will it promote or reduce teenage pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases (STDs ? Does it complement or supplant parent responsibilities ? Does it support or undermine family values ? As revealing as these questions are - since they demonstrate the whole range of adult social anxiety about unauthorized sexuality - they only begin to touch at the wider issues which emerge when we examine sexual regulation more broadly . As a project to shape sexuality in an authorized image , sexual regulation affects nearly every social interaction which occurs within schools : from the politics of teacher-student relationship to student culture , from curriculum and pedagogy to school administration and management . But if sexual regulation has been a feature of schooling for well over a century , why is the idea of sex in schools so jarring ? An answer requires a very long and complex detour through history politics . This is one contribution to that important question

Pros

Proponents argue that sex education is an absolute necessity in to reduce social problems like teenage pregnancy and venereal disease Others say school is a better place for children to learn about sex than in the gutter . Some educators see sex education as just another subject that should be in the school curriculum . Furthermore , supporters of sex education in schools claim that though parents have a strong stake in the education and the future of their children , educational decisions ought not to be made with the parents ' freedom in mind , but rather with an eye to cultivating future freedoms for children (Mayo 41 . These freedoms , according to them , are particularly crucial when children may not share all aspects of their parents ' identity and thus may not be able to access information about parts of their own lives or future lives . Increased sex education may actually delay the onset of sexual activity , according to this group . Those who promote comprehensive sex education say we know kids are going to have sex anyway , so we may as well teach them how to use condoms and other birth control methods

Supporters of sex education also maintain that such education helps young women make responsible reproductive health decisions that they will later validate rather than regret . Another firm statement by sexual freedom advocates is that young people need sex education because the ignorance of their bodies was debilitating and that deference to conventions about what was good for young people to know deepened their passivity and political fearfulness . In the United...