Do you agree to have a sex education in High School Level?

Answer 1

THERE SHOULD BE SOME SEX EDUCATION AT ALL LEVELS OF SCHOOL

kids are having sex way before high school and don't understand the risks
kids need to be educated about their bodies and their parents are not doing a good job (many don't even know all the facts themselves)

Answer 2

Knowledge is preferable to ignorance.
Children should ideally learn from parents as questions arise.
If a child has a question, then they need a honest, age-appropriate answer.
Sometimes parents need help. They may not have all the answers. They may not know all the questions. They may feel uncomfortable talking about it.
Churches, schools, family planning organizations, and doctors should help parents get the right information and help by providing classes for parents and students.
Since these opportunities are not universally available and since not all parents provide the information--one parent responded to a question from a daughter with "Yah having sex!"--then schools must provide information to the majority of children. Recently, a deadly disease, cervical cancer, became a news item because the virus that causes it is easily passed during sex. There is now a shot, vaccination, becoming available. Doctors want to give it to girls as early as possible--by age 10 or 11--because some children become sexually active that early and the vaccination is more effective if given before exposure to the virus. Parents will need to talk to girls about sex very early in order to save their lives. Schools and doctors will need to help spread the word. Yes, the whole community should be involved in sex education.

Answer 3

no, sex ed at high school level is not a good idea because kids that age already got the hormones flowing and it would be difficult to maintain a decent decorum in class. I believe it should be taught at the late elementary level for puberty and abstinence/protection teaching only. These things really should be taught by the parents at home anyway. The school systems are taking on too many subjects that parents should be teaching their kids at home such as "dare to keep kids off drugs" and "safe sex" and most of all "dicipline"and not spending enough time on the important things like the 3 r's

Answer 4

SEx education is a good learning experince I think everyone needs to be aware of the dangers and the outcomes that would be prevalent should someone choose to engage in such activity. By not learning or educating high school students, I believe as a society we stand a higher chance of birth rate and abortions. This comes without mentioning the more tax dollars one must pay for those who decide to seek state help. Education is a major tool.

Answer 5

In reality, most kids, by the time they reach high school, have a great deal of education as well as mis-education about sex. Humans are sexual beings and sex education starts from birth in the way we are taught to view ourselves and others. We are socialized into gender roles, and brought ot understand ourselves in light of our sexuality. Because of the increasing rate of sexual abuse and earlier sexual activity among kids, ideally, families would have been discussing sex for a long time y the time students reach high school, and sex education could be easily just another unit in a health class. Unfortunately most parents are not comfortable with their own sexuality enough to be frank and sensitive to their kids' need for information. A best case scenario might look something like a special PTA meeting for parents of middle school students giving them helpful resources to discuss sexuality with their kids. This could then be followed by a unit of sex education where the parents are talking with their kids about things as the kids go through the class.
But this raises the question of the role of education. Should we be educating kids about life, or should we be working with parents to help them do the job they should be doing in the first place?

Answer 6

I think that kids should learn the basics of sex education way before high school- at home- then have sex education classes starting at the junior high level. There are WAY too many kids out there having sex and not knowing what the heck they are doing, having babies when they are still babies themselves.

Answer 7

Yes I agree because if you tell them at a lower education level, they wont understand what was just said. Now in high school all you hear is how this boy did it with this girl and so on and so forth. If you tell the students in high school, they might learn a thing or two.

Answer 8

I am becoming "less" anti about this. But not a lot less. So very much depends upon the presenter and the content. Sex education, believe it or not, is not new. We had such education in the forties and fifties, but there was not such a big deal made of it by schools, parents and students. Right from wrong, responsibility to ones family, including their parents, and in many areas besides sex education. There was an old joke at the time, and maybe also in Roman times; "Be good; if you can't be good, be careful; if you can't be careful, name it after me!"

Answer 9

Most definitely. High school kids think they know all there is to know about sex, but there are many things they don't know or they have the wrong information. The more educated a person is the better chance of survival they have. Whether it is sex or anything else. I'm 45 years old and I still don't know everything there is to know about sex. Kids need all the knowledge they can get to protect themselves and their partners.

Answer 10

The school I went to (in a tiny, VERY conservative midwestern town) offered sex ed in 5th grade. I believe that the parents should be the primary source for teaching kids this information. However, many parents just don't seem to be comfortable doing so, so it should be offered in schools. Those parents who DO teach their kids themselves should be allowed to "opt out."

The whole idea that "kids are just gonna do it anyway, no matter what" is a bunch of bull. I didn't. Most of my friends didn't. Sure, there were those who did, but that was their choice, and they did have the education. Only 1 person in my class of 70 students got pregnant, and that was in the middle of our senior year. Compare that to other schools of similar size in the same area, and that was pretty good.