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Sex Education Should Be Required In Every Middle School

Since peaking in the early 1900s, teen pregnancy rates have declined 5% and teen birth

rates are down 61%, says Albert of the National Campaign To Prevent Teen And unplanned

Pregnancy. This could be due to sex education being taught in school among kids. Even though

some people believe middle schools kids are too young to learn about sex, sex education

should be required in every middle school across the country because they must learn how

to have safe sex, there is now a high teen pregnancy rate, and HIV/STD rate.

Sex education should be required in every middle school ,because we must prevent

HIV/STDs. With sex education in schools it will teach kids how to prevent HIV/STDs.CDC and

Kaiser Family Foundation, says approximately 65% of all STDs infections contracted by

americans this year will occur in people under 24 years old. This would help school districts

realize that sex education would be a good idea by teaching kids how to prevent these diseases.

Therefore not putting sex education in school would increase kids chances on getting STDs/HIV.

Beyond learning how to prevent STDs/HIV sex education in school would teach kids about good

hygiene.

Sex education should also be required in middle school due to hygiene concerns.

Maintaining personal hygiene is necessary for many reasons; personal, social, and healthy ways

of life. Keeping good hygiene help prevents development of infections and bad odours. This

would teach kids to take care of their bodies and ways to prevent the spread of illnesses,

diseases, and odours. If every school had sex education teaching them this, it would teach kids

what to do in certain situations. Further than hygiene, kids should know and fully understand oral

sex and the risk that come with oral sex.

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Sex education should also be required in school to let kids know about the many risk that

comes with oral sex. Even though oral sex carries a low risk of HIV transmission than other

sexual activity, the risk is not zero says CDC. This would show kids that don't think theres any

risk in oral sex, that there is. Therefore giving oral sex to someone with HIV can continue the

spread of diseases. Requiring sex education in every school would do many thing about STDs

and how to prevent them.

STDs/HIV is a big topic, but teen pregnancy should be talked about to kids in school. Sex

education should be required to teach kids about the teen pregnancy rate and how to prevent the

problem. It should be taught to kids because teenagers aren't ready to have a baby. Teenage

mothers are less likely to gain adequate weight during pregnancy, which leads to low birthweight

and this can cause many problems with the baby and a poor future. Adding sex education in

school would tell young females that their body isn't ready to have a baby and that teen

pregnancy is a bad ideas at such a young age. But to fully understand, first kids must learn about

their bodies and what happens.

If sex education was taught in school it would tell kids what happens to their body at a

certain age and why it happens. Between the age of 8-13 kids worry about whether their parts

are normal, puberty can begin at an earlier or later age. Sex education would help kids connect

and talk about their development, and concerns about their body. Teen pregnancy and learning

about the human body is important, but sex education would tell and teach kids about birth

control and how its can also lower teen pregnancy.

Birth control is mostly used today to stop teens from getting pregnant,based on recent

reports from the Guttmacher Institute, a leading research development company for the advance

of sexual and reproductive health, indicates more and more teens are beginning to use birth
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control of some sort. This could be part of the reason why the number of teen pregnancies are

slowly starting back on a downward trend. Teen pregnancy has gone down to 31% that a big

leap, this mean that sex education is teaching kids how important birth control is to lowering teen

pregnancy. Therefore parent and the school district should push people to require sex education

in school. Teach kids about teen pregnancy is a good topic to teach kids but this is the reason

why sex education should be required in school. Also learning about sex education would teach

kids about the laws of sex.

Sex education should be required to teach kids about the laws of sex and what to say if

you don't want to have sex. Sex education would teach kids what sexual consent is. Kids are not

sure if they had sex or if they wanted sex. If they did, their probably not sure if they consented to

it. Consenting to sex is important to know about sex education. It would tell kids if they have

been raped or if they really consented to sex. Consent is giving permission for something to

happen without threat or pressuring someone. If sex education was required in school it would

teach kids to avoid peer pressure and really consent to safe sex. Beyond consent, requiring sex

education in school would teach kids how to say no to sex.

People who say no to sex may be helping them out in more ways than other by either

pregnancy or STDs. North Carolinas state board of education recently agreed to distribute about

800,000 dollars to 19 public school districts for Just Say No.

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