Sex Education

Sex education should be mandatory in schools. Schools should start teaching it in elementary school and throughout school in till they are out of high school. By making it mandatory the students will be more aware of the consequences and that genitals will become as normal as any other body part. The Ontario government had brought in a new sex/health curriculum in to the schools only to have it taken out three days later. Why should we be teaching sex/ health education and what can happen if we don’t update our program.

In 2010 the Ontario government had brought in a new sex/ health education only to have it taken out of schools three days later by parents and religious leaders. In the curriculum students would be learning about genitals without disguising them with different words. Learning about different families that exist. Such as a family can have two moms or dads. Visible and invisible differences. Visible differences being race, hair, etc. and invisible differences being gender identity, sexual orientation, cultural beliefs, etc. Giving a better understanding of what a healthy relationship is and a clearer understanding about physical, social and emotional changes that will occur in adolescences life. In grade 7 they teach the students about how communication is key in a relationship and how you should wait in till you are older to have sex. Because the government had taken out the new curriculum we are learning from the same curriculum they were teaching 16 years ago. “In September 2012, more than two years after the elementary curriculum was withdrawn, Ontario students returned to school without a relevant, up-to-date H&PE curriculum. 21st century students are still being taught using a 20th century H&PE curriculum.”(O...

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...gnancy rate in the world with a 52.1 per 1000 of the population. 14% of the sexually active teenagers say they use birth control every time they have sex, 50% of these teens report they do have more than two partners in the last 12 months. The second highest country with the largest teen pregnancy rate is the United Kingdom with a rate of 30.8 per 1000 of the population. In Great Britain 4% of the sexually active teens will use a form of contraception every time, 30% of the teen will have more than two sexual partners in the last year. Great Britain has one of the highest rate of teen pregnancy in Europe. Canada coming 8th in the highest of teen birth with a rate of 20.2 per 100 of our population. In Canada 9% of sexually active teens will use birth control each time they have sex, 24% of teens have admitted to having more than two sexual partners in the last year.