Sex Education Today

My school combined pro-abstinence lessons with information about contraception and safe sex. It often emphasized abstinence from sexual activity as the only safe and moral choice for teenagers. Teachers and different community speakers taught us that abstinence was the preferable option for teenagers, but they offered information on other birth control options and disease transmission. I was taught two different types of sex education. The first was in my elementary school class, and the second …

…my Sex Ed classes, and it’s sad because all of my high school was required to take them. Yet, more then half of the kids in my school ended up experiencing a teenage pregnancy or a sexually transmitted infection. I am all for sex education, and I believe that it should be a required course in order to graduate. My sex education was more then appropriate, and I wouldn’t change anything about it.