Comprehensive sex education in public schools

Comprehensive sex education in public schools

Topic: Comprehensive sex education in public schools
Goal: To persuade my audience to support the Family Life Education Act.
Thesis: We should support the Family Life Education Act.

I.
A.   Let’s do a little survey. How many of you know what AIDS is? How many of you know what HPV is? HPV, or human papilloma virus, is the most common sexually transmitted disease in the US today. HPV can lead to genital warts and is the leading cause of cervical cancer (King). Why didn’t more of us know that?
B.     Public schools have been very good about getting the word out about HIV and AIDS but has fallen short in educating about other more common STDs. The Family Life Education Act attempts to address this problem and the problem of unwanted teen pregnancy in order to reduce the frequencies of both.
C.   We should support the Family Life Education Act.
D.     But, first, I will remind you what the Family Life Education Act is, discuss the role parents play, the morality issues surrounding sexuality education, and how comprehensive sex education affects adolescent sexual behavior.

Transition: So, what is the Family Life Education Act exactly?

II.   The Family Life Education Act is a bill meant to encourage comprehensive sexuality education in public schools.
A. According to text of the bill, $100 million a year of federal aid would go to comprehensive sex education that includes abstinence training.
B. In order for a school program to get funding under this act, it would have to do a number of things including:
1. Be medically accurate,
2. Stress the importance of abstinence as the only certain way to prevent unwanted pregnancy and STDs,
3. Encourages communication about sex and sexuality between parents and children,
4. Teach how drugs and alcohol affect decision making when dealing with sex,
5. Give detailed information about the different forms of contraceptives available along with information on their proper use, and
6. Discusses the health...