unication. We all know that when it comes to talking about sex education teachers and students become very anxious and embarrassed (Whitehead 13). In today’s schools some of the subjects discussed are reproduction, abuse, gender identity, anatomy, relationship skills, building social skills, STD’s, teen pregnancy, prevention and of course the obvious puberty. The problem comes in when schools, teachers, and parents are asked to decide what is to be taught. It is a hard question and the answers are even harder when it comes to deciding which ones are right (Rogers 67). Who decides? A similar topic among these same individuals is whether condom distribution in schools is good. Due to the growing numbers of teens having sex, it seems almost necessary for there to be some type of prevention out there for today’s youth (Veltz). Condom availability programs are said to be crucial because they rest on the assumption that they are a vital factor in safer sex practices among students (Irvine 129). Others would argue that having condoms available in schools would only promote the ideas of sex (Young). That it would simply say that sex is right and give the curious teens a chance to come over there curiosity just because condoms where provided in their schools. Condom distribution is a long and on going problem for schools. It probably will never be resolved due to the immaturity of students (Irvine 136). The next issue brought up is what is the appropriate age to start teaching it. Some would say that anyone younger than high school is too immature to really understand it and to really learn it. Alan Harris has made a break down of at what age teachers think sex education should start. He said that seventy-five percent of the teachers questioned believed that preschool should have no form of sex education. Over half of the teachers thought that middle schools is where sex education should start. And almost all the teachers t...
