Essay about The Making of "You" as a Student

During 1920s, U.S. schools began to incorporate sex education to their courses. A 2002 study conducted by the Kaiser Family Foundation found that “58% of secondary school principals describe their sex education curriculum as comprehensive programs provide factual information about birth control, sexual transmitted disease, and continue the message to children about waiting to have sex.” (Johannah)

Contemporary understandings of sexuality are not the same as back in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Understandings and terminology in the past hold multiple differences and similarities than our current contemporary understandings.

He starts his book off by explaining the school’s yearly play which has the topic of nerds becoming manly enough to steal back their girlfriends from the popular jock, but no mention of homosexuality relationships whatsoever. Even though it is assumed that the two male nerd actors could be gay for being in a play like that but not the actors that play the popular jocks. Since there is no mention of homosexuality relationships in a school theatrical production then I was not surprised to learn that the sexual health curriculum was the same exact way. Overall, the curriculum and the administrators who talk/teach students about it puts a large emphasis on abstinence, but when they do talk about safe sex it is no between a man and a man or a girl and a girl it's always between a man and a woman. I believe the reason for this is their religion, and simply the old conservative views that the administrators have been brought up in (sex is between a man and a woman) so they tend not to think that their students are (for the most part) open to the idea of homosexual relationships, and may even know someone or be someone who is evolved with someone of the same gender.

There are many factors that shape us into who we are, and who we will become. Some of these factors we can control, while others we cannot. While we are born into many traits of our identities, much of our other behavior is learned. My identity, for example, is “based not only on responses to the question ‘Who am I?’ but also on responses to the question ‘Who am I in relation to others?’” (Allen, 2011, p. 11). My identity and the question of who I am, are both influenced by many aspects of my life, including my hometown, my family, my friends, and my beliefs and moral values.

Gender equality in schools has been a controversial issue over the years. In these two articles, "The Daily Grind: Lessons in the Hidden Curriculum" of Peggy Orenstein, and "Boys Here, Girls There: Sure, if Equality's the Goal" of Karen Stabiner, both writers give an in-depth reality into the contentious issues that exist between boys and girls. Although they bear some superficial similarities in discussing gender parity problem in education, the differences between Orenstein and Stabiner are the target audience, the rhetorical choices, and their opinion on the gender equality issue.

Censorship has recently grown in today’s spotlight. Everyone is trying to censor books, movies, and paper, even school. You can pray at school, oh wait now you cannot. You do not have to say the pledge of allegiance. Parents today do not want to let their children grow up in the real world. Sorry, but they are going to learn about it one day. Parents act like talking about sex in school is absurd or unheard of. These people are crazy pretending that there little precious baby has never heard the unspeakable word, “SEX!!” Sex needs to be discussed in school and needs to be done in a mature educational manner, and it needs to be discussed in school because it is rare for students to talk to their parents about sex.

However, some women teachers were forced to give up their positions to men

Much of what I have learned regarding taking consideration and educating of young children has been directed to me by women; with this being the situation whether a male has an effect on the way a child learns or creates can be addressed. Should a male be rehearsing the same teaching methods as women are then does the sexual orientation of the teacher really have any kind of effect on how the child responds to the teacher and in turn how the child learns. Why primary school teaching has been labelled as a typically female profession is likewise something that interests me. Can anyone explain why a female would generally be viewed as more suited to a job than a male like myself? Is it true that this is just on the grounds that women are the child bearers, or is it as an aftereffect of gender stereotyping stemming back to times where the patriarch went up against a "breadwinner" role while women took care of the children or is it due to the other contributing factors?

Historically, many reasons exist for teaching being a female-dominated profession. One reason is that women had been deemed better suited to serve as role models and teachers of moral behavior. In addition, women were believed to have the emotional qualities to work with youth, in

A person’s identity is shaped by many different aspects. Family, culture, friends, personal interests and surrounding environments are all factors that tend to help shape a person’s identity. Some factors may have more of an influence than others and some may not have any influence at all. As a person grows up in a family, they are influenced by many aspects of their life. Family and culture may influence a person’s sense of responsibilities, ethics and morals, tastes in music, humor and sports, and many other aspects of life. Friends and surrounding environments may influence a person’s taste in clothing, music, speech, and social activities. Personal interests are what truly set individuals apart. An individual is not a puppet

My second week in the class, I was introduced to sexualization and parents priming their

Sex education was a topic that was considered taboo at home and limited in schools.

A teacher is an important key element in the educational system as well as a role model. Some teachers hold traditional gender stereotypes about their students’ views of what is expected of them. Many children develop social

In the old days, regarding sex education, parents had different reasons as to why they wanted to avoid talking to their children about sex education. Reasons being, some parents did not want to corrupt the minds of their children. They did not want their child to be open-minded into the varieties of sexual intercourse of experiencing this act with their friends or random people at school or any other places. They think it 's just not the right time, their kids are not ready, or they are too young to learn about sex. They tend to hide the term “sex” in front of their kids because of that particular reason and some parents may

There are three very important aspects that play a major rule in my life. They can be categorized as intellectual, social, and spiritual. My intellectual self is interesting because I am mainly right-brained which means that I tend to use my creativity more than my mathematical skills, also making me a visual learner. My social self consists of friends, family, and my surroundings. I spend most of my time at home with my family. Whenever I am with my friends, I observe their behaviors and listen to their opinions. I am more of an independent type of person. Being with different people has influenced me into appreciating different cultures and beliefs. I have learned things that have now been incorporated into my own set of beliefs and