Senate
Bill 521
State republican Senator Ken Paxton
has filed the Senate Bill 521. The Bill will prohibit school
districts from using materials supplied by pro-abortion organization
for sex education classes in schools.
For example local school district
Austin ISD has received materials from such organizations such as
planed parenthood to help with the education of Sex Ed courses. Bill
521 wants to instead promote abstinence and not inform students about
the proper use of contraceptives.
Besides the
attack on organizations contributing to the districts Sex Ed courses,
the Bill would like to change the current law that allows the parents
the choice to opt out their child from the Sex Ed class offered by
the school. Instead, the bill if approved, would like to do just the
opposite and have the parent write a written consent letter to the
school allowing their child to attend the class.
I believe that the education of Sex Ed courses in schools is a
positive program that educates the young of the responsibilities and
sometimes consequences of his or her actions involving sex.
Presentation is key in the subject of Sex Ed. If the curriculum comes
across as unrealistic, untreatable or scaring the student they will
not respond well to the information given and continue to let
negative influences like media contribute to the decisions they make
on sex.
I think it would
be more beneficial to tie Sex Ed courses into a health class
curriculum that goes more in depth with the actions of having sex at
a young age instead of the onetime video that we are all familiar
with. I believe it would be a good idea if during the health course
the students learned the finical responsibilities that come with a
child. Also learning the emotional and physical toll that a child can
have on young teens. Youths today if not receiving a mature and open
conversation with their parents are more than likely receiving
information from the media which sometimes has a poor outlook.
The legislator
should consider making the law for the individual counties or
districts to vote on whether or not they want to adopt such a method.
Different demographics throughout the districts might show more
positive feedback using other methods.
I actually wrote about the same topic in my blog because I feel that this is an important issue. Sex education has proven to be beneficial overtime and SB 521, if approved, will be a major setback. I agree with Aprill on the fact that this seems to be a deliberate attack on organizations such as Planned Parenthood because some of the clinics provide abortions. She brings up a good point in that they should incorporate Sex Education into the health class curriculum. When I was in seventh grade, I lived in Hawaii and we took probably two weeks in our health class to go over sex education, not just watching one video. If that’s what they do here, then we definitely need to refine the sex education course. Overall, Aprill brings up some good points. It may need a little fine tuning to correct spelling and grammatical errors but other than that she makes a valid argument!
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