Persuasive Essay On Sexting In Schools
Sexting in Sexual Education
According to the Merriam - Webster dictionary : “sexting means the sending of sexually explicit messages or images by cell phone” whose first use of the word was in 2007. Since then sexting has skyrocketed and become a trend thanks to media networks. But the consequences that came with the popularity sexting were grave. Jesse Logan was a 16 year old high schooler from Sycamore High School whose life ended because of the events that followed after she had sexted her boyfriend and her boyfriend had sent the photos to others in their school as well as other schools. “She was being attacked and tortured … When she would come to school, she would always hear, ‘Oh, that’s the girl who sent the picture. She’s just a …show more content…
Sexting is a tricky and sensitive subject to discuss just as sex, drugs, and contraceptives. Yet, those subjects are still taught and discussed in schools in ways to fully inform students with the intentions to prevent harmful effects occurring to the students from one of the topics. Parents are made aware of when a student is about to learn about health which is around the age of (add age here). If parents know that their student is learning about sex, drugs, contraceptives, and sexting under the supervision and the teaching of a teacher they can be assured that the school will not present false information or attempt to make the student participate in these risky behaviors. Being taught in school will also assure that the students will not be blinded by what their peers feel on the issue. A teenager listening to a teenager who does participate in sext may not be able to explain sexting in its full aspect and leave out the parts which prove how dangerous it can be. (find article on showing how students who do something can influence others) . Teaching sexting in schools just like they would any of the other subjects can offer students extra information which may be what stops them from participating in a dangerous act such as
According to the Merriam - Webster dictionary : “sexting means the sending of sexually explicit messages or images by cell phone” whose first use of the word was in 2007. Since then sexting has skyrocketed and become a trend thanks to media networks. But the consequences that came with the popularity sexting were grave. Jesse Logan was a 16 year old high schooler from Sycamore High School whose life ended because of the events that followed after she had sexted her boyfriend and her boyfriend had sent the photos to others in their school as well as other schools. “She was being attacked and tortured … When she would come to school, she would always hear, ‘Oh, that’s the girl who sent the picture. She’s just a …show more content…
Sexting is a tricky and sensitive subject to discuss just as sex, drugs, and contraceptives. Yet, those subjects are still taught and discussed in schools in ways to fully inform students with the intentions to prevent harmful effects occurring to the students from one of the topics. Parents are made aware of when a student is about to learn about health which is around the age of (add age here). If parents know that their student is learning about sex, drugs, contraceptives, and sexting under the supervision and the teaching of a teacher they can be assured that the school will not present false information or attempt to make the student participate in these risky behaviors. Being taught in school will also assure that the students will not be blinded by what their peers feel on the issue. A teenager listening to a teenager who does participate in sext may not be able to explain sexting in its full aspect and leave out the parts which prove how dangerous it can be. (find article on showing how students who do something can influence others) . Teaching sexting in schools just like they would any of the other subjects can offer students extra information which may be what stops them from participating in a dangerous act such as