I have been doing my DYK section this year on HIV Education in schools. This weeks QOTW was right up my alley. I have come across alot of evidence that points to either a lack of HIV education or unadequate HIV eductaion in schools. Some examples why HIV education doesn't work in school is because teachers are untrained themselves about HIV or they simply stress abstience becuase that is their own belief. What ever the breakdown is in our educational system its not working at all. Its tough to just stand by and watch this happen. However, to bring some social change as big as HIV education is hard, especially when there are so many opposers. Most do not feel that the public school system should not teach anything that deals with sex. Well if the schools are not doing it and the parents arent doing it then who is? Well I would come to the conclusion that children are taking it upon themselves. They see what happening on TV and movies and start to experiment at a young age not knowing what type of STD's are out there and how prevealant they are as well.
So I think somehting needs to be done to start education in middle school all the way to high shcool. It doesnts need some type of radical scheme, just some social change. Implement a plan of action that starts children on a cirriculum with content geared toward their age and bulid on it. This may send a message that its ok to talk about sex and condom use. The teachers will also need to be properly certified on instruction on how to teach about HIV to their grade. Kill two birds with one stone, teaching young kids about HIV and thier teachers. Unfortunately the only way to do this is to bring out some drastic social change and I dont see that happening. Especially with all of the religions that are oppose to any contrceptives or premartial sex.
DYK: I took this quote from Avert.org, "I am 15 years old and my best friend who is a male has AIDS and we were really close so one knight we experimented and after the fact we 'did it' he told me he had AIDS."- Monica (Avert 2009). Shocking, this young girl was 15 years old. Young people are going to experiment in our society because it uses sex in TV, movies, magazines, and everday life. If parents are being responsible and teaching their kids then the government needs to. I just cant believe that no action has been taken knowing there is no cure for HIV.
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HI Joe. I thought your insight into HIV and education was good. I would have liked to have seen some references or specific data on your education information. I, too, think education for HIV is important and a plan of action will be difficult to come up with since we have so many opposing views on how it should be taught. I think you did a good job.
ReplyDeleteJoe, I enjoyed reading your blog. I would have to agree with you when you stated that some of the issue with HIV education in the schools is that the teachers are not education on the subject themselves, which leaves it hard for them to provide the children with the information. I believe our educational system should hire some professionals who are well aware and educated on HIV/AIDS that can educate our children, in order to attempts to get our number of actual cases to decrease. I look forward to your next week's blog.
ReplyDeleteI think not only are teacher's not educated but schools just dont want to spend the funding on having them educated or on people who are educated in HIV to come and teach it. Just think about how UCF cut out the program that Teach and LInda P had.
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed reading your thoughts in how we can change HIV education in America. The fact is true about what you said that teachers are qualified enough to teach this kind of topic to their students. No one is really teaching young children about HIV/AIDS now days. It seems like school officials believe that it is mostly the parents’ responsibility to teach their children about HIV and on the flip side parents are thinking that it is the responsibility of the schools to do it and while all this is going on the children are being left alone having to learn about I themselves, if they want to. The fact is children are not going to investigate about what HIV is because they are too busy wanting to do fun things and have other things to think about but this mentality is understandable since I also felt the same way in elementary all the way to high school until now.
ReplyDeleteI use to train the Orange County teachers under a CDC grant. They knew what they had to do to teach the subject, but because it revolved around sex, they were still uncomfortable with teaching it.
ReplyDeleteI've wanted to try an experiment with reality-based education in one set of 9-12 grades and another with the common abstinence-based education to see what would happen to the students over the years. My hypothesis is that the reality-based students wouldn't get pregnant, have sex or get an STD until much later in their school career when compared to the other students. I just need to find a school and the time to get it done.
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