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Sex Education

Thesis: Sex Education should be taught in middle schools to make our children aware and help

them with decisions in the future.



Audience: All District #150 Personnel



Sex Education should be taught in middle schools to make our children aware and help

them with decisions in the future. When children enter middle school many of them are going

through adolescent changes. This school district needs to help educate these hormone raging

teens about sex education. Not only will this program teach sex education, it will also give teens

the chance to ask questions and receive help if they are in a sexual situation. District #150 makes

up about three quarters the schools in Peoria and if you make room for a sex education program

to help your students, many other schools will follow your example. You can help stop teen sex

at an early age with guidance. With a sex education program in your curriculum, you will see

success in the students lives and notice a change in attitude toward the opposite sex.

As you walk down the middle school hallways, you see more young teenage girls that are

pregnant. Many of these girls knew the chances of getting pregnant without using a condom, but

really they didn't care. According to Faye Wattleton, "the staggering rates and devastating

consequences of teen pregnancy in America are well document" (Wattleton 51). It seems clear

that many of the girls are unaware of the results of having unprotected sexual intercourse. These

girls and even young men should be given the opportunity to learn about the outcomes of sex.

When a teenage girl is making out with her boyfriend and things start to grow intense, most just

go along with sex because they think nothing will happen. With this program you can help

decrease more than "1,000,000 US teenagers becoming pregnant each year, intentionally"

(Donavon 28). Helping find the answer to a problem is a start, but solving the task takes time.

Pregnancy is a major...