What reasons would help justify providing Sex Education in the Mississippi Public High Schools?

Sex Education at School?Who’s responsibility is it to educate our

children about sex?What type of lessons should be taught? Safe

sex practices or abstinence?When should these classes be offered? What

grade?Where, if not at school?

Elizabeth White

Today’s Sex IssuesParents and teen conversations

Teens and their body

Mississippi has highest teen pregnancy rate

Diseases

House Bill 999 signed February 2011

Parents and Teen Conversation

• Who starts the conversation

• What do we talk about

• Does the child understand

• Does the parent get it

Teens and Their Bodies Boys Girls

How do boys perceive themselves

What do they know about girls

Do they know correct terms

What do they really understand

How do girls perceive themselves

What do they know about boys

How much do they know about their body

Do they know correct terms

Pregnancy RateMississippi has the highest teen pregnancy

rateDo teens know the risk

DiseasesOther issues besides pregnancy

Life threatening

Protection

House Bill 999States Sex Education will be taught

School Board to decide about contraception

Abstinence or abstinence-plus

http://www.mde.k12.ms.us/extrel/leg/2011/2011HouseEdBills.html