Missouri leaves a lot of room for interpretation in its state statutes around sexual health\r\neducation. There is no mandate that schools to provide sex education and is amenable to both\r\nTeen Pregnancy Prevention and Abstinence Only programs, as well as anywhere in between.\r\nDecisions about the depth of sex education that students receive is left up to the school board.\r\nIn practice, this means that students across the state get wildly different education.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
We wanted to see what this looks like in the St. Louis area. TPPP recently produced a\r\nreport on current sex education policy in the St. Louis-area public school districts, which\r\nincludes results from a survey with youth about their experiences with sex education. The\r\nreport, St Louis-Area Sex Education: Policies Practices Experiences (which can be downloaded\r\nat the bottom of this page) will help TPPP in providing highly relevant professional development\r\nprogramming, and support efforts for advocacy around evidence-based and medically accurate\r\nsex education.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
This survey was given to 55 students in the St. Louis region. These teens were\r\ndisappointed with the sex education they received in school. They don\u2019t feel that sex education\r\ngets enough time during the school day. This means that there isn\u2019t time dedicated to the\r\ntopics that teens report wanting more education on: LGBTQ+ topics, consent, and healthy\r\nrelationships.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
All St. Louis-area schools surveyed failed to meet NSES guidelines and only 1\/3 of them\r\nmet MSEP guidelines. Students at the schools with more comprehensive education policies\r\nreported learning about more than their peers without those policies. These results remind us\r\nthat, although the teen pregnancy rate continues to decline, sex education is an essential part\r\nof teen\u2019s education experience. It is essential that we continue to work with our stakeholders\r\nand partners to advocate for Missouri teens.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\nDownload Report<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Missouri leaves a lot of room for interpretation in its state statutes around sexual health education. There is no mandate that schools to provide sex education and is amenable to both Teen Pregnancy Prevention and Abstinence Only programs, as well as anywhere in between. Decisions about the depth of sex education that students receive is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1133,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teenpregnancy-mo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1111"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teenpregnancy-mo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teenpregnancy-mo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teenpregnancy-mo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teenpregnancy-mo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1111"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.teenpregnancy-mo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1136,"href":"https:\/\/www.teenpregnancy-mo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1111\/revisions\/1136"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teenpregnancy-mo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teenpregnancy-mo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teenpregnancy-mo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teenpregnancy-mo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}