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Teach sex ed right
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EDITOR:
I am a student at Youngstown State University and recently hosted two events on campus, one for health care reform, including women’s health care, and another calling for comprehensive sex education in our schools. Students are very interested these topics. We collected 125 signatures on a petition calling for comprehensive, medically-accurate health information for our public schools. A 2008 report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention states that one in four teenage girls has a sexually-transmitted disease. Abstinence-only programs don’t work and too many students in Ohio and across the country have been kept ignorant of the facts. It’s time for a change. Please consider contacting your state representative and tell him/her to support House Bill 316, Act For Our Children’s Future which would not require sex ed but would require that school districts that teach the subject teach medically-accurate information that could help prevent unintended pregnancies and STDs. We all deserve better.
BASIA TANORI
Youngstown
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I agree. In fact, I believe that abstinence-only teachings are merely wishful thinking on the part of parents.
As a YSU student myself, I can't tell you how many conversations I overhear about sexual situations. And these conversations didn't start once I hit college; I've been hearing my peers talk about everything up to and including sex since middle school.
There is a level of age and maturity when sexual relationships are acceptable and adolescents are experiencing it way to early! There are numerous reasons for this, and one of them comes down to the fact that these kids know too much about the pleasures of sex and not enough about the repercussions of it.
Some type of program needs to be incorporated into the schools so that these kids can become educated. They already know about sex, and a lot of them are already doing it, so at the very least, they should be learning correct terminology, consequences, and prevention methods. Until such programs are implemented, parents need not be blind to the issue; open up and talk to your son or daughter about sex. It might save his or her life, and maybe someone else's.
It is taught way too early in schools.Not only that but teenagers no long understand consequences since we live in a consequence free society. What's stopping them when abortion is your ultimate plan B?