Blindfolded Ignorance

Blindfolded Ignorance Imagine trying to perform surgery, or trying to color in the lines of a coloring book while blindfolded. What would be the end result? Would you miraculously perform the surgery flawlessly? Would you be able to color each and every segment of the book to look like the next Mona Lisa? In truth the patient you would be operating on would probably die, and the picture you were coloring on would look like someone vomited color on it. Then I ask you, why should we expect teens to know how to be safe when being sexually active when no one ever taught them? I am talking about why we need adequate sexual education in schools rather than the hogwash that many schools are teaching their students in the current “Sex Education”
To begin with the government is spending a lot more money on abstinence only classes rather than classes that focus on protection of one’s self while being sexually active. Debra Hauser, CNN Wire Service journalist, writes about how the House of Representatives have passed a bill that restricts the funding of sex education programs that “normalize teen sexual activity as an expected behavior” as part of the new “No Child Left Behind” rewrite (Hauser). What the House of Representatives fail to understand is that teen sexual behavior is going to happen. They are withholding valuable information from these students in hopes that they will not ever have sex before marriage and it is not working. In fact, Lena Rawley states that “in some states like Tennessee, sex education is only required if teenage pregnancy exceeds a certain percent” (Rawley). This makes the funding of sex education therefore pointless because now so many teens are pregnant. To make the funding to sex education not go to waste, then the government should change the restrictions on funding to allow more helpful sex education programs to get a foothold in schools to help make sure teens know about safe sex. Next, sex education needs to be taught by professionals to get the maximum profit from government spending. I myself have taken part of the “Sex Education” class that was part of physical education. It was taught by my freshman P.E. teacher for three class periods out of the semester. When it was time to learn about the birds and the bees we would go into the conference room in the back of the hallway that lead from the locker room, down the hall filled with regular school propaganda, and into a dull gray room with shoddy tables, uncomfortable metal chairs that were like blocks of concrete, and a projector. We then had to sit through a rather uncomfortable slideshow while the teacher told us the names of various