Michael Albert Professor Oleferuk 6/19/09 English 120 Condom Distribution in Public School Systems According to the Center for Disease Control‚ there are approximately nineteen million new cases of sexually transmitted diseases reported every year. While this number seems astounding‚ it is more surprising that nearly half of those instances occur in the 15-25 year age group. Furthermore‚ nearly 300‚000 unplanned teenage pregnancies arise mostly because of poor or no condom use (Ventura 53)
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Selling Safe Sex in Public School The article I wrote and I will talk about is “Selling Safe Sex in Public Schools” by Michelle Bryant. The article was about a teenage girl named Shelby Knox from Lubbock‚ Texas who discusses how schools just teach abstinence instead of also teaching safe sex education. In this article Ms. Bryant mentions a very common issue in public schools‚ which is how schools would to a certain extent teach students about abstinence only rather than giving them another form
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Hardship of Transgender Students in Public Schools What makes being transgender so hard in public school? The physical bullying‚ not being able to fit in as well‚ and the school rules taking away your natural rights? Students that are trans are more likely to be discriminated against in public schools. Transgender students often cannot attend school events and even go to the bathroom‚ many students often will call them a freak or other harsh words‚ and if the situation is bad enough they might even
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At the turn of the twentieth century North Carolina’s government fell under the control of the Democrats’ White Supremacy rule. The Jim Crow laws‚ enacted by North Carolina’s legislature in 1899‚ formally required segregation in all public facilities and transportation. Disenfranchisement‚ an attempt to restrict African Americans’ rights to vote‚ allowed Democrats to apply a poll tax and a literacy test. This combination successfully restricted an enormous portion of African-American voters and
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children in the Kenya school district. Many of the children in Kenya should are in primary and secondary schools which should are be funded by the government education free program. The misuse of education is preventing so many children from attention school. Many of these children are very fortunate that their parent can afford to send them to a private school to get best a better education. Many parents are arguing that they believe sending their children to a private school would give themn m
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children against various diseases‚ including polio and measles‚ as a prerequisite to enrolling them in public schools (Ciolli‚ 2008). Enrollment in public school requires up to date vaccinations in order to protect the children and even the adults from contracting and spreading a disease‚ possibly causing an epidemic. Although all public schools require immunizations‚ there are still children in the schools whose religion exempts the use of vaccinations. The goal of this paper is to further explain
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the center of many court cases in the Supreme Court linked to public schools. The public school setting has always been a major area of controversy concerning the separation of church and state. Albeit with some exceptions‚ the separation of church and state should not take place in public schools. The freedom of religious expression is already limited‚ and if the separation of church and state happens to take place in public schools throughout the US‚ the government would teeter on the brink of
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Owens found that among families with children income segregation is driven by an increased income inequality along with school district options. Income segregation between neighborhoods rose twenty percent from 1990 to 2010 and it was around twice as high for households that have children versus those that do not. The income of a family alone can tell us a fair amount of why the schools can be so segregated. Parents today are in pursuit for the best education possible for their children and this means
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believe that religious education in schools is a brainwashing tool to children‚ whereas others see it as an important way to teach children about the diverse beliefs held by different people in a multicultural society. The religious issue in public schools has always been touchy. Some argue that religion should be taught in a secular way in public schools to limit the separation of students. Regardless whether the religion is being taught secularly or not in public schools‚ religion should be taught to
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America’s public schools are woefully underfunded. As state legislatures around the nation focus on reducing spendings‚ education spending is often the first to go. And when these public schools are confronted with a dramatically smaller budget‚ art programs get the axe. As the Chicago Sun-Times report in 2013‚ Chicago Public Schools laid off over 1‚000 teachers when they made the decision to close over 50 schools. Nearly ten percent of these teachers taught in the arts or music. As ThinkProgress
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