Group Assignment

Subject: Academic English

Subject Code: DWIA 120
Topic: Sexual Education Should Be Mandatory

Prepared for : Miss Atira Fadzil

Prepared by Group 6
1.Nur Farhana
2.Farah Azwa
3.Siti Nurain
4. Abu Naser Md Mahraz

Submission Date: 04/03/2021

 Sexual Education Should Be Mandatory

Sexual education is includes a comprehensive curriculum covering bodily changes during

puberty, sexuality, healthy relationship and biology that allow people to make informed
decisions about their sexual health. In Malaysia, sexual education is not being taught in school
because of parent and teachers discomfort to discuss the topic. Besides, the dissatisfaction with
the proposed curriculum for religious reasons. Why should be ashamed to explain and taught
about sexual education and use religious reason? Every years their are approximately 3000 rapes
cases, 18 000 teenage pregnancies and 100 cases of baby dumping. In addition to that, the study
highlights that the public have some misconceptions about consent, healthy relationship, safe sex
and birth control. In light of this, the current state of sexual health education in Malaysia can be
summed up in one word ‘dire’. Isn’t this in alarm levels? Do we still want to take it easy?

There are 35 states that have laws that allow parents to optional practical training their children
out of sex ed. Even worse, 3 states make parents optional practical training their children into
sex ed. You can't optional practical training your children in or out of math. But when it comes
to sex education, one of the most important things you can learn in school, a parent can take their
kid out for no reason at all. I am all for religious freedom, but just because you or your religion
values abstinence doesn’t mean your kids will too. It's important teens get all the information
they can, and then make a decision about their own values. Don't let religion or family values be
a reason to let students be taken out of sexual health education. Don't let your morals obstruct
your kid's learning. Only 13 states require sex education information be medically accurate. We,
one of the world's leading powers, only require 26% of states to teach children medically
accurate information. Sex education is important. It's been proven time and time again. We
know students who receive formal sex education in schools are shown to first have sexual
intercourse later than students who have not had sex education. Sex education does not
encourage teenagers to have sex, it does quite the opposite. Every teenager should have sex
education incorporated into their schooling. It shouldn’t be opt-in or opt-out but mandatory. Why
should parents be able to opt their children in or out of a subject that they'll need later in life, one
way or another? Sex education should be mandatory, comprehensive, medically accurate, and
taught throughout student's school years, just like math. It's been shown to help students, not
hurt. Not only is having access to sex education that is not only comprehensive but medically
accurate a human right; it's our fundamental duty as a society to educate the next generation.

More than half of parents do not think sex education should be taught to children at school,
according to a new survey. Many think it is inappropriate to teach children about sex, whilst
others think it should be a parents' choice to inform their own child. The survey, which
questioned more than 1,700 parents of children aged five to 11, found that 59 per cent do not
agree with the fact that sex education is often taught to children in schools, even from a young
age. Almost half (48 per cent) of those questioned said children should be at least 13 years old
before it is appropriate to teach them about sex, the survey found. Of those that don't agree that
sex education should be taught in schools, 41 per cent said it was inappropriate to teach
youngsters about the subject, while one in four (28 per cent) said it should be the parents' choice
to teach their own child. A similar proportion (27 per cent) said there was no need for children to
know about sex.

This paper explores Malaysia schools’ approaches to implementing sexuality education at a local
level, and provides a critical analysis of potential strengths and weaknesses. Documents related
to sexuality education in a convenience sample of 89 schools were analyzed and findings
confirm both the results of the few existing Malaysia studies on the subject and commonalities in
sexuality education between Malaysia and other countries. These include strengths, such as the
existence of teams in charge of sexuality education in schools and the provision of resources, but
also weaknesses, such as too heavy a focus on health-related issues, difficulties in cross-
curricular teaching, low levels of community participation and poor-quality evaluation. There
has been an argument raised by the opponents of sex education is that the provision of too much
or the talking of sexual education can ruin the innocence and make them think about it.
Comprehensive sex education involves teaching on abstinence, safe sex practices, and sexual
diversity, but most schools do not teach ‘abstinence’. Instead, they focus on having safe
intercourse which family objects before marriage. There is a lack of sincerity in students as well
as teachers. Students tend to think of this subject as embarrassing or ridiculous and hence do not
pay attention to it or attend the instruction. They either laugh about it or think of it as an
“entertaining subject”. This might be difficult for teachers to teach about this subject. Although
receiving sex education during your adolescence can be not always practical but beneficial, it
should not be removed from the school curriculum. It should approach as to how it is taught.
Suggestions are made for improving the quality of sexuality education in Malaysia schools.
Suggestions are made for improving sexual education, sexual education does not promote sex but
helps to inform about the precautions and possible consequences of sex. Besides, sex education
is needed and helpful because it allows to make right choice and obtain correct information about
sex . It also can prevent dangerous disease such as STDs, HIV and AIDS.

After discussed both sides it is proved that the importance of sex education being taught in high
schools to students. Children and teenagers need good and correct information from the right
sources about sex, sexual relationships and various other related issues in order to make a right
decision for their present and future. They need to understand about what can happen if there are
misconceptions about sex, it will turn becomes dangerous. After all, “Information is power”, and
in this current risky world, Because they would need all the necessary information they could
get. For they will be our future pillars for the next generation. The implementation of sex
education in schools will be able to prepare them properly. Not only that, based on the evidences
and research done as well as collected carefully, it proves that sex education brings many
benefits by reducing the rate of teen pregnancy, providing teenagers with accurate and helpful
information, and also protecting them from harm. This is to ensure the students that are our
future generations will be well prepared to stand up against all the unexpected obstacles in their
future. After all, “Education does not hurt, but ignorant does”.