Friday, December 9, 2011

Critique on "What needs to happen?"

This week I had to critique one of my colleague's work, and I chose an older post from my classmate Allison Murken "What needs to happen?"
In her post she talks about sex education in schools, which has been a very popular subject between a lot of my classmates. I have read several opinions on my post about teen sex education and have seen several comments on my other colleagues articles. Something that stands out from Allison's is that she talks about her personal experience at her school and makes a very good point stating "We were not taught about our bodies, or our options, but only that with sex came with deadly diseases that we were sure to get" Reasons like those are why I believe abstinence should be taught! "Sex Ed" classes lose focus on teaching young adults about their bodies and the changes they go through, instead focus on just STD's. Almost as if they are trying to scare off young adults from having sex by telling them that they will get a disease. Allison said "I think all schools should implement the abstinence plus program" which she says would also teach about contraceptives and sexually transmitted disease. Although i believe only abstinence should be taught, the abstinence-plus program sounds informing also. Altogether she wrote a very good, organized, informational article.

No comments: