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| Yes | 88% | 1194 votes | Total: 1359 votes | |
| No | 12% | 165 votes |
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Should teens have sex education in schools? Absolutely. While part of me would like to say that it's the responsibility of the parents, it isn't - not fully. Many parents are...read more
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by Shelly Mcrae
Teen-agers are usually well acquainted with the concepts, mechanics, and consequences of sex. They understand why they have sexual urges, know how to have sex, and are aware sex...read more
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by Simone Grace
Sexuality education is crucial, the sooner the better. Most parents would agree that it is their responsibility to talk to their children about sex but many parents don't take ...read more
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Should teens have sex education in schools? The first place where most students are first introduced to the concept of sex is at school. From a very young age peers begin to ta...read more
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Should teens have sex education in schools? Our teenage and adolescent years are our most memorable and influential times in our lives. This is the point at which we are ...read more
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Would you let your Kindergarten student walk to school without knowing how to cross the street safely? Of course not. You would be risking his health and even his life by doing ...read more
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by Missy Bell
Teen pregnancy. AIDS. Emotional scarring. Early responsibility. These are just a few of the negative consequences of having sex as a teen. More and more teenagers are h...read more
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Lets call it Life Education rather than Sex Education. When we call it Sex Education many people get their backs up. But Life Education would be a more appropriate term for wh...read more
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by Andrew Post
Knowledge is power. The question is not whether teens should be exposed to a sensitive topic like sex so early in their lives. Rather, the question is whether not being taught a...read more
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by A. Bailey
Around the age of puberty, sex education should absolutely be taught to children in school. Sex and the human body are subjects that are pertinent to the human life, perhaps th...read more
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Sex education should absolutely be taught in all high schools. Schools are responsible for educating students and making sure that they get a well-rounded education. Are we so...read more
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by Wordsleuth
Should teens have sex education in schools? Yes. If teens do not have sexual education in schools where are they going to get it? Most parents pretend that sex between teen...read more
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by Ben Hughes
The UK currently has one of the highest, if not the highest, rate of teenage pregnancy in Western Europe, so the question is rather: why shouldn't teens have sex education in sc...read more
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by Bill Murphy
To properly answer the question we need to clearly define what would "sex education" include. I remember way back in the '70's, when I was in high school, and we had sex ed. It ...read more
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Should teens have sex education in school? Absolutely. While I would prefer that teenagers practice abstinence, the unfortunate reality is that a significant number of teenage...read more
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Absolutely, yes, teens should have sex education in school but parents need to take responsibility too, after all they are the primary educators of their children. We all kno...read more
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by Jason Rosero
Sex education gives students a chance to actually learn the emotional and physical outcomes of having sex, the positive outcomes from a commited relationship and the negative on...read more
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by Kate Johnson
Schools exist to impart knowledge and skills. Sex is a fundamental fact of our existence. To ask if sex education should be taught in schools is to ask if human beings should ...read more
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by Joe Owens
Sex education for teenagers, do we really want to try to educate teenagers on sex? If we don't will they behave anyway? Yeah, sure just the way terrorists will stop bombing plac...read more
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Why do some parents fear sex education in schools? They fear sex education in school simply because their belief system denies children the right to be accepted as 'real' human...read more
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Sex education is something that should be taught at home, not in a public school system. If you want to teach human anatomy, teach it in biology class, but don't call it sex edu...read more
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by Saul Carter
It's absolutely amazing how so mnay people believe that sex education in the public school system is a good thing! Let's take a look at the recent success stories of public sch...read more
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by Crystal Lake
The sexual education of teenagers is only the business of the parents and teenager in question, unless the parents demand that form of education, enroll the student themselves, ...read more
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by Sarah Walter
I believe that sex education in schools teaches children not to abstain from having sex but instead to protect themselves while they have sex. I believe that sex education is wh...read more
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by Pnk Guru
Sex is to "Hide and seek" not to light up openly! Sex is a natural feeling and activity that would start springing up at appropriate time in a human life. Its arrival at an e...read more
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by Angel Canupp
I have 3 girls at home and personally I would like them to talk to me about that kind of stuff. My oldest girl is 11 and already starting to go through those changes to a young ...read more
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I don't believe it is the responsibility of the school system to teach our children something so personal and intimate as sex, and I don't think that we as parents should be try...read more
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by Penny Davis
It should be obvious to everyone by now that sex education in the schools has failed miserably. Teen pregnancies escalate as do STD's. Young people are having sex at earlier age...read more
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by Marrid
The answer to this question is no. Some teens are touchy about this subject and are uncomfortable even talking about sex to anyone. Teens go through an awkward time in their lif...read more
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by Mary H. B.
As far as I'm concerned, sex education is the parent's job. Some of our schools just haven't done that great of a job of educating our kids the way it is. There are so many peop...read more
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Absolutely not! I'm a teenager, yes, and with all the teen pregnancies at my school, there definitely should not be sex education in schools. With the high teen pregnancy rate...read more
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