Texas Sex Education
Texas Doesn’t Know What Sex Is? Spring time. Spring is the beginning of new life and a time for further growth. It is also the time the birds and the bees start to make more birds and bees. Humans too follow the actions of the birds and the bees, thereby creating new life. New human life can be a gift from God. However, today teenagers are not learning about intercourse or the reproductive process. They have a better chance about learning how bees and birds haves sex then how humans do. Poor sexual education is much too common in Texas public schools and the United States in general. Intercourse and reproductive process are gifts, but if not understood it will become a burden on society. The results can be STIs and unwanted teen pregnancy
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However, there are several causes of poor sexual education that can be remedied. Causing the problem, abstinent only curriculum and lack of regulation is the most prominent causes of poor sex education. The lack of regulation among the public school system is jaw dropping. The National Conference of State Legislatures website says that only 19 states have to have their curriculum medically factually. So, that means in the other states a teacher can teach that sex is not real or that if a teenage has sex he or she could fail the SATs and ACTs. Under Texas’ law, HIV and AIDS are the only items that need to be medically factually. Texas there by has the right to teach its high schools having sex makes teenagers blind (State). Abstinent is another leading cause in poor sexual education. Teaching abstinent as a method is perfectly fine, but when that is the only theory taught it does not affect the teenagers in the state. Teenagers that have comprehensive teachings on sexual education are 60% less likely to have a pregnancy. What are the problems caused by poor sexual …show more content…
The State of Texas has the 3rd highest unwanted pregnancy rate in the country. Also, Texas has the 3rd highest rate of HIV in the country. These problems stem from that fact that education in schools in not teaching the teenagers the best and safest ways to practices sex. Abstinence education is the biggest component to the problem, because it doesn’t teach what to do if this happens or how it could have been prevented at the beginning. What prevention tactics could be taken to stop this growing
However, there are several causes of poor sexual education that can be remedied. Causing the problem, abstinent only curriculum and lack of regulation is the most prominent causes of poor sex education. The lack of regulation among the public school system is jaw dropping. The National Conference of State Legislatures website says that only 19 states have to have their curriculum medically factually. So, that means in the other states a teacher can teach that sex is not real or that if a teenage has sex he or she could fail the SATs and ACTs. Under Texas’ law, HIV and AIDS are the only items that need to be medically factually. Texas there by has the right to teach its high schools having sex makes teenagers blind (State). Abstinent is another leading cause in poor sexual education. Teaching abstinent as a method is perfectly fine, but when that is the only theory taught it does not affect the teenagers in the state. Teenagers that have comprehensive teachings on sexual education are 60% less likely to have a pregnancy. What are the problems caused by poor sexual …show more content…
The State of Texas has the 3rd highest unwanted pregnancy rate in the country. Also, Texas has the 3rd highest rate of HIV in the country. These problems stem from that fact that education in schools in not teaching the teenagers the best and safest ways to practices sex. Abstinence education is the biggest component to the problem, because it doesn’t teach what to do if this happens or how it could have been prevented at the beginning. What prevention tactics could be taken to stop this growing