Sex Education in Ohio Schools
...g to the Alan Guttmacher institute. By then it is far too late to be teaching abstinence only education. The Program The sex education program for the schools would not be a required course, but rather an elective if they choose to take it. If the child chooses to take the course there would be a consent form that the parent or guardian of the child would have to sign agreeing that the child is allowed to take the course since some parents believe that the subject of sex should be taught at home and not at school. The curriculum would cover the anatomy of the human body and why it works the way it does, also about the use of contraceptives such as; condoms and birth control pills. It would also cover the many sexually transmitted diseases, HIV, and AIDS, and how to lower your risk of contracting one of those diseases by practicing safe sex if you choose to have sex. This program would also teach teens to make responsible decisions about sex. Outcomes of programs like this one There have been many schools that have tried programs similar to this one and have had great results in reducing teenage pregnancies and STD’s among middle and high school kids. In San Marcos, California, a high school used a federally funded program which emphasizes on safe sex and the use of contraceptives. Before using the program there was one hundred forty seven pregnancies out of six hundred girls. Within two years, the number of pregnancies plummeted to twenty out of six hundred girls. As of 2001, San Marcos was still using this program and was still satisfied with it. In Jessup Georgia, upon starting the same program, the number of pregnancies out of three hundred and forty female students dropped from seventeen to thirteen to eleven to three in two years. According to the Alan Guttmacher Institute out of the fifteen states that teach Sex education instead of just abstinence only education, there is a seventy six percent increase in the use of contraceptives, and a forty three percent decrease in the spread of sexually transmitted diseases among middle and high school kids who choose to ...