The article of NYTimes.com talks about students of public middle and high school will be required to take sex-education classes beginning this school year for the first time in nearly two decades in New York City. This new mandate is announced by the Bloomberg administration in order to improve the lives of black and Latino teenagers who are far more likely to have unplanned pregnancies and contract sexually transmitted diseases than the whites according to city statistics. The administration wants to teach teenagers as young as 11 about safe sex in the hopes of reducing pregnancy, disease and dropouts. It calls for schools to teach a semester of sex education in 6th or 7th grade, and again in 9th or 10th grade by using Health Smart and Reducing the Risk, out-of-box sets of lessons. For those schools that have not been offering sex education, the department will offering training sessions before the start of the classes Sept.8. In fact, students in the city have taken at least five class sessions of H.I.V. education each year from kindergarten through 12th grade. However, those classes only teach students about sex but not about preventing pregnancies. In the new sex-education classes, teachers will describe how and why to use condoms in which are distributed for more than 20 years in high schools.
I think it is relevant to our class because we talk about how the majority white powers think the minority people, like Afro-Americans have a different culture from them. They think those Blacks are poor because they are too lazy to find a job. At the same time, in order to improve their lives, those Blacks need to be taught with their contributive help. Similarly, the article talks that the New York City’s administration mandates sex-education to teenagers in public schools to improve the lives of young minority men in the city. How and why the administration can not just says to improve the lives of young men?
