Castro, Jose
Mr. Landin
English 1301 11368
07 March 2012 With the TV shows that we have today like “Jersey Shore” and “Teen Mom”, it is even more important to educate our students about sex. These shows are giving the people the wrong impression about sex. It is crucial to teach sex education to prevent more teen moms in the future. Unfortunately, many parents aren’t comfortable about their child learning sex in school. But with the media encouraging irresponsible sexual behavior, it is more beneficial to teach sex in a classroom than watching it on TV.
Some parents are against teaching sex education in schools because of their child’s age and what information is getting taught and as to what is getting exposed in school. “Parents do have some limited opportunity to opt-out of the public school curriculum (this is typically permitted by state statutes dealing with sex education) but I do not think this would support a more general right to opt-out (Myers).” Parents have little information on what their child is getting shown and how much of it is acceptable to teach their child. “Yet recent research shows that although the age of children affects the extent of sex-related communication from parents somewhat, other attributes – like parental knowledge and comfort levels about sexuality, and even attitudes towards comprehensive sex education – play a significant role in the amount of parent–child communication, regardless of children’s ages (Byers, Sears, and Weaver 2008) (Jerman).” Parents also think that they are too young to learn certain sex topics in their classes. To begin teaching students about sex, we should introduce the importance of self respect to students at an early age. If you teach children to respect themselves and others, when they encounter an intimate situation later in life, they will truly value themselves and their partner. Without