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Sex Education in Schools

 

             Sex Education in Schools.
             Around the country, teachers in high schools recognize that young .
             people need a range of information to suport them in making responsible .
             decisions regarding their sexuality. In a world where you are constantly .
             surounded by sex, it's no wonder that more and more teens are engaging .
             in sexual activity at a younger age. Whether its waiting online at the .
             checlkout counter and reading the magazine covers or watching telivision, .
             sex is very much apart of our socity. In this day in age abstinance is not .
             enough to teach american teens.
             In doing reaserch my findings where shocking even to myself who is .
             a teen. Teens are becomng more sexualy active at a younger ag, 66% of .
             HighSchool students have had or will have sex by thier senior year. That .
             means that more then half of teens btween the age of 17 and 18 have lost .
             thier virgininty. According to the Center for Disease Controld and Kaiser .
             Family Foundation, approxmity 65% of all Sexualy Trensmitted Deases .
             contracted by Americans this year will occur in people under 24. One in .
             four new HIV infections will occur in people younger then twenty two. .
             Between the ages of fifteen and twenty are the largest number of .
             contracting a sexualt transmited desease. Everyday 33,000 teens contract .
             an SDT everday in the United States. At the end of year 2001 2.5 million .
             teens have an Sexualy transmitted dease. With numbers like these sex ed is becming more important. .
             There is no federdal law that requires sex ed in schools, let alone .
             what should be taught. These decisions are left up to the state and .
             individual school distict. Currently only eightteen states and the Ditrict of .
             Colombia require schools to provide sex ed, thirty two do not. In the state .
             of Louisianna kids may learn about HIV/AIDS but not any other STD. They .
             will not learn ways to prevent pregnancy. However in states such as .
             Washington teens recieve information on everything from birth control pills .


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