most of europe and canada force public school students to take sex ed as early as seventh grade...compulsary sexual education to 11 and 12 year olds, how appalling. do you want to see this happen in US public schools?
why not teach our children prayer, morality, values instead with that time?
sure those europeans and canadians may have teen pregnancy rates that are half of the US, and STD infections may be 50 to 100 times less common than in the US, and the percentage of teens who are sexually active may be lower than in the US. the US may be the leader among western nations in all 3, but still
and sure only 15-20% of pregnancies are terminated in europe as opposed to over 25% in the US, but still
STD infected, pregnant teenagers who get abortions are just collateral damage in the war against indecency and immorality
2006-08-04 08:54:30 · 23 answers · asked by trolls aint human 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
sarcasm is yummy
2006-08-04 08:58:46 · update #1
Sex Ed needs to be taught in school because kids are going to have sex whether they need to or not. It is good to let them know the risks about it and maybe it will scare some away from sex. Just because there are a certain amount of teen pregnancy doesn't mean they are the only ones that have sex. The average age that kids today have sex is 14! They NEED education about this. We can't teach 'prayer' in public school it is against the law. This needs to be taught by parents!
Parents need to teach morality, prayer and values. But parents these days are more hands off and don't relate with their children.
2006-08-04 09:01:53 · answer #1 · answered by Fallon V 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hi trolls - those are pretty eye-opening stats. Even though you're being sarcastic, I'm going to answer this straight. If they can't keep the 10 Commandments plaque up, or keep "under God" in the pledge of allegiance, we'll never see what you suggest. As far as not teaching sex education, our stats would be even worse because kids learn from each other, so that's not the answer.
I don't think prayer will ever be incorporated; if even one vocal party objects, it is called "infringing on the freedom of speech" and "freedom of (lack of) religion". The founding fathers envisioned freedom to worship as one of our inalienable rights, not freedom to object to other people worshipping, but it seems everything gets twisted. (Virtually all the founding fathers were Christian.)
As for morality and values, we have to look to the home; it will only be reinforced in private schools. I was blessed to have a Christian education through most of grammar school and high school. Most churches have a religious education program either after school or on Sundays; that's quite a gap to fill in one day, while kids have other influences five days a week. God bless you.
2006-08-04 16:28:50 · answer #2 · answered by Serena 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ah, now if only there was a question for me to answer...
You seem to have answered your own question. Well, maybe if we gross out young kids with descriptive details about the symptoms of STDs, they will be scared out of unsafe sex. But I think this will always be a problem so long as there are 14 year olds in the Teen section of Yahoo Answers who are asking the best way to get pregnant. Education needs to come from home, not just from school.
Wow, looking through the answers, it is amazing how many people were blind to your sarcasm. Gosh, these people would fail AP English in a second!
2006-08-04 16:08:09 · answer #3 · answered by Phoenix Lumbre 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because if your going to remain abstinence there is no need for teaching any sort of sex ed. Sex ed should be taught to those that are going to have sex. Teaching prayer and morality would take a huge step toward a state sponsored religion, which the constitutions doesn't, and thankfully so, allow. If these kids have made the decision that they will have sex, then someone needs to tell/show them how to do it correctly so that the chance of preg. or diseases will be diminished. If teaching a kid to use protection encourages a kid to have sex then lets stop showing kids and telling kids that they should wear seat belts why driving, cause using your frame of thought having seat belts on will cause kids to WANT to go out and get into accidents.
2006-08-04 16:05:09 · answer #4 · answered by bigbadwolf 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Will you pray to a Jewish God, a Christian God, a Muslim God, a Hindu god, etc.?
If there is going to be prayer in schools, it will need to address the beliefs of each individual student.
What's the likelihood that this will happen?
And parents often have the option of having their student exempted from a sex ed. class. And parents can choose to not have their child(ren) attend public school.
And sex. ed. does help a teenager develop morals and values; why do you think that religion/prayer is the only way to become a moral person?
And the fact that you seem to ignore all the data you cite is very telling - either you are not serious or you just refuse to recognize the importance and impact of sex. education.
2006-08-04 16:01:11 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You're kidding right???? Abstinence and praying to replace sex ed is not even feasible. True, abstinence is the only 100% method of not contracting STD's or getting pregnant but it's not logical. If Europe & Canada do in fact force sex ed as early as 7th grad what's wrong with that??? I've heard of pregnant 8th graders for many years. We can't bury our heads in the sand and depend on "praying" to solve this problem. This "puritan" approach will not work, only make the problem worse.......
2006-08-04 17:17:13 · answer #6 · answered by carpediem 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sex education is a great idea. Teaching prayer in schools is a terrible thing to do and would be wrong.
Sex education actually decreases number of sexual partners teens have. Abstinence only programs have worse rates than no education at all.
2006-08-04 16:02:44 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I hope you are being sarcastic because all the reason you listed are the argument for sex ed. Also why do the teachers have to teach prayer at a public school isn't that what parents and preachers are for?
2006-08-04 15:59:51 · answer #8 · answered by neveroutnumbered 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Heh, I hope you're being sarcastic.. otherwise this is one scary-*** question.
On the off chance you're serious... do you really think kids aren't gonna learn about sex some other place? At least in school they get accurate information that won't scare them or turn them into perverted deviants.
Oh, and prayer to who? Allah? Vishnu? Zeus? Cause you can't force one kind of prayer without forcing all of them.
2006-08-04 15:58:09 · answer #9 · answered by Eldritch 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If prayer actually worked, there would be no need for any type of education.
We could all just pray and "God" would make everything we need magically appear (or disappear). Which begs the question as to why he took so long to invent electricity. Or, if he did not intend mankind to have electricity, why he invented it in the first place.
The bible is such nonsense, it's amazing anyone actually believes it.
2006-08-04 16:06:59 · answer #10 · answered by Left the building 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋