Programme: International hospitality management (BA)

2nd year

Module: Business & Academic English Year 1

Should children be taught sex education in schools?

Lecturer: Mariyana Todorova

Student number: 18027
Date of submission: 04.04.2020
 Table of Contents

Introduction……………………………………………………………………………………3
Method – questionnaire………………………………………………………………………..5
Findings ……………………………………………………………………………………….6
Discuss the results …………………….…………………………………………...………….6
Conclusion ………………………………………………………………………….…………7
References ……………………………………………………………………………………..7

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 The theme of sexual development of children and adolescents today is relevant, as it is
done to prepare healthy men and women for adult life, who are able to adequately understand
their physical and psychological characteristics, as well as to establish their relations with people
of their own and opposite sex in all spheres of life.
Sex education for children and young people is a complex task, combining moral, ethical, and
hygienic problems. Most young people start their sexual life as teenagers, often without a clear
idea of conception, childbirth, the harm of abortion. And the most important thing is not having a
love for a partner.[ P. Pound, S. Denford, J. Shucksmith et al., “What is best practice in sex and
relationship education? Views, vol. 7, no. 5, pp. 1–11, 2017.]
In the modern world, the need for sex education already at the stage of pre-school childhood
becomes obvious. Problems related to the sexual life of a person have long been under a secret
ban in Kazakhstan, the appeal to them was considered obscene. But in recent years, the approach
to the "sex issue" has changed.
Therefore, the relevance of the problem of sex education of the younger generation is obvious.
Each parent would like to see a real man or woman in the younger child.
The purpose of this work is to understand whether children need to be taught sex education in
schools. In order to achieve the goal, the following tasks must be solved:
-To study the literature on this problem;
-To study the age characteristics of children of older pre-school age,
-To study the issues of sex education of children in the family;
-Conduct a survey of children and adolescents.
The school plays an important role in the child 's sex education, but it all starts with the
family. Parents are the first to start sex education for their children, even if they do not know or
want to.
The purpose of sex education is to foster honest and clean relations between a man and a woman,
high moral beliefs, the right direction of sexual instincts. The ultimate goal of sex education is to
form happy marriages in which love reigns, mutual respect. A girl needs to be inspired that sex
life without love, outside marriage is impossible. Willpower and a sense of shame in a girl are
reliable guardians of her morality. Shame in youth helps to hide and contain sexual sensations,
gives the right direction to all behavior. It is very important to instill in the girl these qualities
from early childhood. A powerful educational factor for children is mutual respect, care,
tenderness of parents to each other. Parental relationships are the model by which boys and girls
form attitudes of femininity and masculinity, rights, and responsibilities. It is about parents that
the child learns to recognize and understand the emotions of others, sees samples of mutual
assistance. A huge role in the family is played by the father, who took on part of the care to raise
children. [On the need for children’s sex education in the family. (2010). ABSCBNnews.com.
Retrieved 26.0.20 from:http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/insights/07/04/10/need-childrens-sex-
education
Student health service. (2010). Studenthealth.gov.hk. Retrieved 26.03.20
from:http://www.studenthealth.gov.hk/english/resources/resources_bl/files/lf_se_fse.pdf]
From another point of view, early sexual life leads to the fact that a person loses all the best that
there is mold in him - purity of relations, the freshness of perception, enthusiasm, the expectation
of love and happiness. The girl must be aware of the dangers of accidental early sexual
communication, which weakens the body physically. She should be aware that sexual life in
connection with childbirth plays a much greater role than in the life of a man, know about the
harm of abortion leading to gynecological diseases, infertility and sexual coldness, early aging,
remember sexually transmitted diseases that can cripple her, make her disabled for life.
The school plays a very important role in the child 's sexual upbringing. To adjust the
educational impact of the family, the school also deals with the issue of sex education. Sex
education in school is carried out by various specialists: subject teachers, class head,
psychologist, social teacher, using various methods and forms of work, through events, lessons,
according to specially developed programs. At present, many social educators and psychologists
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believe that it is useful for children to learn about sex education programs that do not replace, but
a supplement, domestic lessons.
The role of a class leader in sexual education is great. Children need to know where to turn to if
it 's hard. Therefore, the class manager should organize consultations for students in the family
planning center, introduce the school psychologist, the social worker of the school, girls to the
gynecologist. He also spends class hours on "the harm of early sexual relations," sexually
transmitted diseases and ways to prevent them, "contraception," and much more. The school
psychologist should conduct various surveys on sex education, hold lectures on healthy lifestyle,
means of "safe" love, talks about sexual growth of the body, AIDS and its prevention, together
with children, teachers, and social teacher organizes actions on prevention of venereal diseases.
The social teacher 's work in sex education at school is to work with both children, teachers, and
parents. He conducts talks, lectures on gender relations, family, seminars specifically for parents
and teachers on issues of concern to them, and consultations for parents and teachers are
organized and held for the sake of necessity. [ D. A. Francis and R. DePalma, “Teacher
perspectives on abstinence and safe sex education,” Sex Education, vol. 14, no. 1, pp. 81–94,
2014.]
Particularly important is the role of the school during puberty, which is also characterized by a
decline in the authority of parents and an increase in the influence of others and the environment
as a whole. Adjustment of the social environment and sex education in school is carried out by a
social teacher who contributes to the socialization of the child.
If a student 's pregnancy or sexually transmitted disease is detected at a school, it is not an
excuse for lectures and interviews with students. These cases are strong evidence that sex
education, as an important section of general education, is missed by both the family and the
school. Sex education and education at school and in the family should prevent and alleviate the
difficulties and dangers that young people may face on the threshold of independent living.
There is nothing more harmful than the belief that sex education work can have an immediate
effect - abortion in minors will be eliminated, cases of sexually transmitted diseases will be
reduced.
These negative phenomena will certainly disappear as systematic, scientific, and methodological
informed sex education of schoolchildren is carried out.
Thus, the school plays an important role in the sexual education of children, as targeted and
specially organized work on sexual education will contribute to the correct development of the
child. Only specialists who possess psycho-pedagogical knowledge and teaching techniques can
make this work more effectively. The school owns an arsenal of necessary specialists and a large
amount of time affecting the process of child formation.[ F. Mouhanna, J. DeJong, R. Afifi, K.
Asmar, B. Nazha, and H. Zurayk, “Student support for reproductive health education in middle
schools: findings from Lebanon,” Sex Education, vol. 17, no. 2, pp. 195–208, 2017.]

Questionnaire for students in grades 8 - 11 (anonymous)

Purpose: To obtain information regarding students 'knowledge of sexual relations.
Instructions: Please answer the suggested questions by choosing one of the answer options, or
offer yours.

1. Your floor:
 man
 girl

2. Your age:
___________________

2. What do you mean by "sexual relations"?

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• courting
• kisses
• sex
• another ______________________________________________________

3. I found out about sex...

• from telecasts
• From reading special literature
• From conversation with peers
• from parents
• from teachers
• Specify other sources _______________________________________________

4. Do you think early sexual life can cause harm and why?
___________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________

5. How old do you think sex should start?

• 12 - 13 years
• 14 - 15 years
• 16 - 17 years old
• 18 years
• Your opinion _____________________________________________________________

6. What programs about sex education in school teach you?

_____________________________________________________________________________
_
_____________________________________________________________________________
_
_____________________________________________________________________________
_

7. Do you think the school needs a special course on this topic?

• yes, it is necessary
• probably, it is necessary
• I find it difficult to answer
• Probably not needed
• it is not necessary

8. Did you have sex?

• yes
• no
Thank you!

Whether for identification of efficiency it was necessary to train in a sex education survey is
conducted. Obtaining information concerning knowledge of pupils in the field of sexual relations
was the purpose of this poll. Pupils had to answer the questions provided to them, or choose the
answer from options, or offer the option. 80 people participated in the poll.
Results of the poll showed that:
1. The phrase "sexual relations" at teenagers is associated with the word "sex" – 62 persons;
kisses – 8 people; courting – 4 persons, and all at once – 6 people.
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2. About the sexual relations, the youth learns first of all from a conversation with peers – 32
persons, then from telecasts – 17 people and readings special literature – 15 people, 10 people of
children can talk on this subject with parents and only 2 persons learn about it from teachers.
3. Teenagers consider that the youth begins early sex life to seem is more adult – 22 persons, out
of curiosity – 14 people, under the influence of alcoholic, narcotic, and toxic means – 12 people,
and it is false motivation.
4. Early sex life can do harm, consider 51 persons of pupils, and 25 people think that from it
there is no harm.
They carry to the harm reasons: undesirable pregnancy; abortion consequences; further
infertility; infection with venereal diseases and AIDS; physical, psychological and spiritual
unpreparedness; shortage of experience; suicide.
But if young people in time are protected and in their relations the love dominates, then it will
not do any harm, and on the contrary advantage for an organism.
It is pleasant to note that meet, and such answers as need of social maturity and an opportunity to
accept responsibility for themselves and another person.
5. At what age sex should be started, adolescents believe that from 16 to 17 years old - 29
people, from 18 years - 17 people and from 14 to 15 years - 15 people.
6. 30 persons of minors believe that special courses in sexual education should be held at school
permanently, not alone; 6 people of children claim that such classes are not necessary at all.
7. From the question of whether you have a sexual experience, 10 people answered that yes, and
65 people did not.
Summing up the whole work and from the result of the survey, it can be concluded that the
issue of sex education is interesting, relevant for children, but they receive the satisfaction of
their interest from peers and mass media, which are not always correct. The attitude towards sex
education in children varies. Just over half of children believe that there is no harm from early
sexual life, and, since then, they are also unaware of contraception. Besides, one-third of the
respondents have a first sexual experience, and more than half of the children consider it
necessary to conduct special courses and classes in sexual education, to obtain the necessary
knowledge, views on gender relations. Insufficient attention is paid to sex education due to the
lack of time for specialists, and this issue is not sufficiently implemented in the activities of
teachers. And there is no single, holistic program for sex education of schoolchildren in the
school. Statistics on early pregnancy of adolescents confirm the impact of sex education in an
educational institution, but the results of the questionnaire show that a special program for sex
education of children is needed.

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