What should be taught in our schools?
... can keep a porn pop-up from occasionally exploding on the screen. Just one click and grade school aged children can become part of the most untrue sexual education experience ever. Another large source of sex and sexuality is the television and radio. Shows like “The Sunday Sex Show” and “LoveLine” provide lots of information about some serious sexual issues. Some of this will be accurate and some inaccurate. The purpose of educating young kids properly is about finding out what they already know and adding appropriate things to their existing knowledge. It is also a good source for curiosity and correcting any misinformation they may have. For example, say an HIV positive young man in high school gets cut in shop class and his friend helps him get a band aid on. But the friend didn’t know about the dangers of HIV and AID’s spread through blood. If he had taken sex education he would know this and protect himself with a pair of latex gloves. The likeliness is small, but the consequence can cost you your life. People have always seen our country as a melting pot. We are a country that offers many freedoms. And we as a modern country have the programs to help foreign people to adjust to our culture and economy. In the past fourteen years, the foreign born population reached 57%. In the year 2000, Latin American or Spanish speaking people made up over half of those foreign born people (Camarota). The children are our future and the only way we will continue to melt as a nation is if we attempt to adjust also. Spanish has recently become a daily or every other day class for some grade school kids as low as third grade. The purpose of presenting the language at such a young age is to mold two languages in the mind before it has mastered one. Once you have learned your native language properly and understand it fully, it is harder to learn another language with new letters and pronunciations. One of the most common benefits of being bilingual is the job opportunity’s you gain as an adult. Also in other countries, like Japan where the students learn up to three languages by the age of fifteen, show better test scores on math and science evaluations then countries that don’t. Kids obviously need to learn English; it’s a huge part of our culture that we must never loose. A study once attempted to determine the effects of what is called a 2-way bilingual education program. Two groups of students, a regular group and an experimental group, were studied for a year. One group of children participated in regular education. Students in the experimental group were instructed in English approximately 70% of the time and in Spanish approximately 30% of the time. At the end of the last grade, no statistically significa...