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    Ever since I was little, i have had the career aspirations of any other child. From ballerina to firefighter, fashion designer to chef. At one point I wanted to be a veterinarian, but when I came to the realization that I don't particularly like animals that dream slowly faded and died. When I looked back upon my previous dreams I realized one common theme, Helping people. It was from then on that I knew who I wanted to be. It all started on a Sunday morning when I was fifteen. My mom was making

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    of teaching, and publicity. Sex education has been a major debate for children under eighteen, because there are some parents that want it taught in schools and others that do not because of different reasons. There are currently eighteen states and the District of Columbia that require schools to provide sex education and thirty-two that do not require

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    transmitted diseases (STD’s). Sex education is a way of communication from educator to student gradually throughout their developing years on the biological nature, process, and possible consequences of sexual activity. Regardless of the amount of pro-abstinence lessons established in such education courses to prevent teen pregnancy and higher birth rates, there are a plethora of other factors that also affect these rates that government intervention cannot justify. A comprehensive sex program advocates displaying

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    young age. Sex education is the teaching about bodily development, sex, sexuality, and relationships. It also provides young individuals about making and communicating informed decisions on sex and their sexual health. It is of great importance that our community stay informed of sexual activity and healthy habits. Despite the prevailing image of sexually free adolescents, sexual attitudes in North America are relatively restrictive. Typically, parents provide little or no information about sex, discourage

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    The debate over whether comprehensive sexual education should be taught in has been a controversial issue in the United States for over a decade. The United States has more than double the teenage pregnancy rate of any western industrialized country. Recent statistics has shown that more than a million teenagers become pregnant annually. In addition, teenagers have the highest rates of sexually transmitted disease of any age group. In fact, one in four young people contract a sexually transmitted

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    Faces blush, pupils cringe and minds zone out as the teacher brings out the ‘red’ box. The contents inside so horrifying that it makes even the most intrepid of learners escape from the classrooms. What is the fuss all about? It’s sex education - of course – the funniest and most pointless lessons. Yes, boys, you will learn how to put a condom on a plastic penis, and yes girls we will discuss your periods because we have to… sound familiar? It seems like teachers are forced to put up with this and

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    it. Not only are we not inforcing to protect or family and loved ones from harm due to the sick individuals in our world today but we are setting them up for failure as well. STDs are not a game to mess with, when I attended elementary school sex education was talked about once and only once when I was about 10. Who at the age of ten will remember any of that information? Which I did not, unfortunately. One-third of 15-year-old girls say that neither of their parents has talked to them about how

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    Sex education is and always has been lacking in our country. An increase in sexual education would be greatly appreciated from almost everybody, especially with how high the sexually transmitted disease rate has raised in the past twenty years. Sex education can be used to teach young people how to have safe sex and show them the scary truths of sex that they are never taught otherwise. To lower STD rates and raise pregnancy awareness in younger people, schools and parents should be teaching children

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    Sex Education is the Best Education Let’s just take a step back and examine how we are bombarded by sex in almost everything we do. We turn on the television and see commercials from Carl’s Jr. promoting their new burger with a half-naked woman washing a car. We get onto social media and see half naked pictures of women and men we idolize, like Kim Kardashian-West and Justin Bieber. We see ads all over magazines and malls claiming that a certain bottle of perfume will make you seduce men or women

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    districts of Texas. The total number of participants will consist of three groups, all from the 2016-2017 school year. The first group did not participate in neither sex education program offered by the school, the second group participated in abstinence-only sex education, and the third group participated in a comprehensive sex education program. The research team make sure that boys and girls and each school grade are represented equally. All schools are located in urban areas. The representative

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