Some may think that sexual education should not be taught in schools. Maybe it should be taught at home? Or on their own time? But personally I believe it needs to be taught in school and be in a curriculum. If not children and young adults will grow up clueless about what is inevitable, without the proper education, they won’t be able to have healthy, or safe sexual experiences.
The sexual education curriculum has not been updated in many years. Especially when it comes to health, these things need to be updated more. It is always changing, and evolving as the years go by. What needs to be taught more is consent within the sexual education system. It is apart of sexual education in so many ways.
The Sexual education curriculum, is tiptoed around. The don’t use words like “rape”, they don’t talk about birth control options until grades 9/10, when majority of girls get their periods in grades 6/7. The curriculum is worried about having too much of a heavy load of information on the students but this information is something that will be with them for the rest of their lives, and they will have to deal with sexual experiences their whole life.
The curriculum, especially in Saskatchewan, preaches absence instead of the reality. It doesn’t prepare the students for emotional and physical safe sexual experiences, what it taught doesn’t prepare anyone for a healthy sex life. It is again scaring students from reality. A lot are taught that it is going to be a bad thing, and you’ll be shamed for doing it. Because of what is taught, people may go into adulthood thinking that sex is only for when you want to start a family, but they are missing huge parts about pleasure, sexual communication, enjoyment, sex shouldn’t be something that that cat not be talked about. It is natural, and has been happening since the beginning of time , and it shouldn’t be an uncomfortable conversation when sex comes into play
Politicsby Holly Funk Nov 5, 2021 12 min, Saima Desai Aug 19, 2020 21 min, Sara Birrell Jan 6, 2020 3 min, & Jack Thompson Jul 5, 2019 2 min. (2021, November 5). Saskatchewan’s shameful sex ed. Sask Dispatch. Retrieved January 19, 2023, from https://saskdispatch.com/articles/view/saskatchewans-shameful-sex-ed