Abstinence-Only Education In Schools

My learning throughout this course was different than other courses. I read from a textbook, which was similar, but the application was different. Seeing as this is a foundations of education course, it was about the history of education for most of the course and how the history shapes the present, and will shape the future of education. The application was a lot different, however, due to the fact that the information learned throughout the course applied to different projects. For example, while gathering information for the debate on abstinence-only education in schools, it was important to take into account what life was like, and how our culture has evolved into one where sex is not a taboo topic anymore. With that in mind, having abstinence-only education made sense for students of a different time, but the information provided to students needs to change with the times. This is different due to the fact that for other courses, the projects would include information on current topics instead of cumulative information.
Coming from a small, mostly white town, I never grew up around a lot of diversity. The most diverse my school got was the fact that there was one African American student and around three homosexual students. In relation to that, it was interesting to learn that there are specific ways to organize a classroom in order to be fully inclusive of every race, sexuality, or gender identity. When thinking about becoming a teacher, I never took into account how easily offended Americans are where one comment or action can be twisted into an attack on someone, and the importance of making sure that every student feels comfortable requires a lot more