Do You Agree with Texas Public Schools Dropping Health Education Classes?

I hear all this talk about how it is the parents right and responsibility to teach sex education and morals and ethics.
This is lovely talk. Some parents probably actually do talk
to and even with their children, somewhere. many or most do not any more than their parents did. Teen pregnancies are on the rise and at younger ages. Look at the world. All the media,
movies, TV, Music, advertisements and clothing scream SEX
at these kids all day and night. And it works. The least we can
do is have a classs where these topics are aired and all the mis-
information can be clarified. We do these children no service
to let them learn from the worst sources instead of the best.

Mrs.PGK, Tyler

I absolutely agree with this decision. We as parents have not only the honor, but the responsibility of raising well informed and educated children. Our youths' mental and physical health is up to the family unit to perpetuate. Our teens and pre teens should have learned to communicate and ask questions from their parents. There is no excuse for any parent not to have the appropriate information for their children. We have at our disposal, family physicians, libraries, and certainly a wealth of information via the web.
I do believe that a 9th grader or high school student is most capable of having moral, ethical, and emotional maturity to make informed decisions about abstinence. The question is whether they have the maturity to understand sexual relationships and the ramifications that they carry.

Of course the initial lessons about sex and health should start at home (in a perfect world). Every lesson a child learns should start at home. Still,it doesn't hurt for them to get textbook lessons at school. Maybe their parents didn't have some of the facts correct themselves, or just neglected to mention some things. My mother was a real prude and gave me some really skewered ideas. The classes helped me.

I am 70 and have no idea what they are teaching now. I do remember what I learned tho and I think it is most important.
I don't think it should be a requirement to graduate. Girls,especially learn about their bodies and what is happening ,answers a lot of questions. They aren't going to get the straight ans.
from their friends. And most girls don't have a great relationship with moms. It's a growing thing.
So many young girl's are having sex at an alarming young age and no foggy as to the danger in that.Disease,among many that are ignorant..
Learning self respect and how to say NO.