Sex Education in Schools.
Around the country, teachers in high schools recognize that young .
people need a range of information to suport them in making responsible .
decisions regarding their sexuality. In a world where you are constantly .
surounded by sex, it's no wonder that more and more teens are engaging .
in sexual activity at a younger age. Whether its waiting online at the .
checlkout counter and reading the magazine covers or watching telivision, .
sex is very much apart of our socity. In this day in age abstinance is not .
enough to teach american teens.
In doing reaserch my findings where shocking even to myself who is .
a teen. Teens are becomng more sexualy active at a younger ag, 66% of .
HighSchool students have had or will have sex by thier senior year. That .
means that more then half of teens btween the age of 17 and 18 have lost .
thier virgininty. According to the Center for Disease Controld and Kaiser .
Family Foundation, approxmity 65% of all Sexualy Trensmitted Deases .
contracted by Americans this year will occur in people under 24. One in .
four new HIV infections will occur in people younger then twenty two. .
Between the ages of fifteen and twenty are the largest number of .
contracting a sexualt transmited desease. Everyday 33,000 teens contract .
an SDT everday in the United States. At the end of year 2001 2.5 million .
teens have an Sexualy transmitted dease. With numbers like these sex ed is becming more important. .
There is no federdal law that requires sex ed in schools, let alone .
what should be taught. These decisions are left up to the state and .
individual school distict. Currently only eightteen states and the Ditrict of .
Colombia require schools to provide sex ed, thirty two do not. In the state .
of Louisianna kids may learn about HIV/AIDS but not any other STD. They .
will not learn ways to prevent pregnancy. However in states such as .
Washington teens recieve information on everything from birth control pills .