Most parents want sex ed taught in schools, according to a poll conducted by the Survey Research Unit of the Gillings School of Public Health, University of North Carolina.
More than 90 percent of parents want sex education taught in public schools; 93.5 percent said public health professionals should decide what's taught in those classes, Lynn Bonner reports.
Close to 100 percent of parents said teaching students how sexually transmitted diseases are passed on and prevented, and how to deal with pressure to have sex were important topics for the classroom, according to the survey completed last month.
The poll, commissioned by the Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Campaign of North Carolina, is an update of a 2003 survey sponsored by the state Department of Public Instruction.
The pregnancy prevention campaign supports House bill 88, which would allow parents to choose whether their children should receive what is now the standard abstinence-based sex ed, more comprehensive sex ed, or no sex ed in school.
The bill has passed the House and is pending in the Senate.
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Re: Poll: Parents want sex ed taught
There will always be the argument of the Nanny state here. It is true that a small minority of parents are not teaching their children the right things. What you are deciding here is the same with texting while driving or if you are allowed to smoke on PRIVATE property. And it can also lead into the annexation argument.
What may you ask do all of these have in common? The Government telling you what you can do, where you can live, and ultimately how you live your life. I bring forward a valid argument that no one can counter. Unless you believe that the government should be choosing winners and losers and what your own fate in life will be.