What is the relation between

religious/non-religious school
systems & sexual education, and
what factors affect this in the
classroom?
By: Andrew Gilbert & Ann-Marie Giannetti

Student, Parent, Teacher

Involvement

(Q1). Who is the primary

educator of Sexual Education for
Catholic and Public School
systems?

Student, Parent, Teacher

Involvement
{C}From the Catholic perspective, the teachers should
be the secondary educators of human sexuality or the
sexual education and The Parents would be the
primary educators.
{P}The Public school systems allows The Teachers to
be the primary educators.
Discussion Question 1. Knowing this information, how
would allowing parents vs. teachers be the primary
educators affect the students?

Teen birth/Abortion Rates

(Q.2) What was the combined rate, from 1996 to
2006, of teen birth/abortion in Canada of women
ages 15-19?

Increase/decrease?
(A). 56.7% (B). 36.9% (C). 44.2%

Teen Pregnancy Rates

(B). Combined Decrease of 36.9%
Discussion Question 3. Were these
results shocking to you? Why or why
not? What do you think it was that
caused the decrease?

Affects that Pregnancy can have

(Q.3) From the list below identify the non-effect(s)
that pregnancy can have?
(A.) Low birth weights (B.) Pre-term birth (C.)
Post-term birth (D.) Poor neonatal outcomes (E.)
Emotional distress (F.) Family disruption (G.)
Social isolation (H.) Education interruption

Affects that Pregnancy can have

Affects:
-

Low birth weights

Pre-term birth

Poor neonatal outcomes

Emotional distress

Family disruption

Social isolation

Education interruption

Non-affects:

- post-term birth

Discussion Question 4.
How would these
different affects, overall,
challenge these young
females for years to
follow?

Sex Easy to Discuss

(Q.4) True or False:

Sex education battle lines are so firmly

drawn that school trustees, superintendents,
principles, teachers and parents are terrified
of speaking about it.

Sex Easy to Discuss

A. True
Discussion Question3: Why do you think there are such
firmly drawn lines as to the discussion behind sex in the
school systems? Significance between the public and
catholic systems?

Past, Present + Future

Activity:
With the new information that you have
been given on the administration of
Sexual Education in the Public and
Catholic systems, what would you as an
educator suggest or would like to see
changed?

Bibliography
-

Teen birth/abortion rate trends in Canada

http://www.sexualityandu.ca/sexual-health/statistics1/statisti
cs-on-canadian-teenpregnancies
- Human Sexuality Outcomes Grade 4-9: Health and Life skills
Alberta Catholic school
- So much for graphic, how-to sex education: a long-term rise in
teen pregnancy leaves more girls in misery and conservatives
feeling vindicated
http://search.proquest.com/docview/195774761?accountid=1
2063
- Improving High School Completion Rates of Pregnant and
Parenting Teens, Terra Centre for Pregnant and Parenting Teens
- Health and Life Skill Kindergarten to Grade 9
- https://education.alberta.ca/media/313382/health.pdf