Hey,
This post is going to be a little different from my usual, simply because I am doing this for a good friend of mine.
Basically she is campaigning to make Sex Education Compulsory, she has made a petition on the 10 Downing Street website and needs signatures in order to be able to take it to the Prime Minister and get it debated. Here are some facts that support her opinion that Sex Education should be compulsory.
STIs - 1.5 million new cases are being diagnosed each year
Teenage pregnancy - 41,951 teenage pregnancies in 2002
One in every ten babies born in Britain is to a teenage mother.
Ofsted have stated that sex education is poor and patchy. Many schools have failed the ofsted inspections for sex education.
In many schools form tutors who don't have the right skills are teaching sex education, which leaves youths and the tutor embarrassed.
Everyone deserves the chance to be taught the correct information.
Some people are learning about puberty two to six years after they've experienced the onset!
Some people don't have any sex education at all.
Some people get the information from their friends, media or even by experimenting.
Myths about sex and pregnancy are everywhere. Some people believe that you can't get pregnant if you stand up whilst having sex or if it's your first time! The fact is you can.
Sex education needs to be compulsory!
So I am asking you guys if you can take a little trip over to the website and sign the petition for her. I've even been kind and put the link right here for you, it will take no more than two minutes and it would really help make a difference to teenagers Sex Education.Here is the link http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/Sex-education/
Thank you! xxxx
hotchkiss
I don't know how old you are but your petition is one of thousands sent to various government agencies over the last 30 years, all saying the same thing, namely, introduce more sex education and lower the problem of STD and teenage pregnancies.
Is it because you people are just young or are you all plain stupid? All the LEAs in the British Isles that intoduced compulsory sex-education programmes within the last 30 years have seen a 2000% rise in STD's and teenage pregnancies. The LEA's that have been slow or restricted the introduction of compulsory sex-education have seen rises in teenage pregnacies and STD's of between 4-600%.
In 1972, the number of live births born to girls while still in their teens was 4800. The previouse decade was fairly costant at about 2500. There was no sex education at school.
The people responsible for introducing the policy of familiarising children with sex and those actually teaching children about sex should be regarded as paedophiles and placed on the sex-offenders list.
The same thing happened with drugs. Experts are, and have always been, a curse which society has had to deal with. They always get it wrong.