Should Sexual Education Be Taught in Schools' Cirriculums?

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“Given a choice between hearing my daughter say "I'm pregnant" or "I used a condom," most mothers would get up in the middle of the night and buy them condoms or a form of birth control herself” No mother ever wants to hear those words coming from their daughter at a young age, or even at all in some circumstances .You can avoid worrying about your daughters by reading the following information on the education of young teens and birth control. Even though most education about sex leads teens to be safe and in some cases not have sex, if teachers are forced to educate on birth control in their school curriculum it may have an opposite effect on pushing some teens to have sexual intercourse. Students in high school should be educated on birth control because it may help prevent pregnancy, and there are too many young teens getting pregnant these days, especially in the Brainerd Lakes Area.
There are many ways to go about educating on subjects such as sex and using birth control in school curriculums. Young girls have been getting interviewed all over the country about birth control being taught in school curriculums. This is what Jessica from San Antonio, TX has to say, “If teachers hand out condoms and the pill and the government funds the effort, I think that makes it seem like schools are condoning teen sex.”(Should schools) This is a good example of if teachers do teach birth control in the school curriculum because if young teenage girls, or boys, are handed out condoms or the pill then they might seem to be encouraged to go out and have sex. But i also think they should teach more than just the basic means of birth control. They should teach about how to care for and how to bring alive the concept and what you would ha...

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