What I've Learned

I wrote my synthesis on sex education. When I started the synthesis essay I believed that the lack of education was the reason that teens were having sex. I was trying to support my thesis and I realized that this is not true. The media plays a huge role in our everyday lives. We are use to seeing half naked men and women on billboards and TVs. Teens may spend a total of 5 hours a week in a sex education class, but they will spend 25 hours or more watching TV. Educators cannot overpower the media. At first I wanted to blame teachers and the school system for the high pregnancy rates and the percentage of teens have sex, but I realized that it isn’t their fault. I believed that they were not using the right methods and teens were not getting the message. It is not the teachers’ fault, the media and the parents are to blame. Parents buy their children violent video games, they buy the revealing clothes, and they give teens to much freedom. Parents allow their children to watch TV and they let them be consumed about what they look like. My parents took my brother and I “back to school” shopping every year. They took us so we had nicer, newer, and all around better clothes. I am not saying my parent should not have done this, but I think it shows that they helped me become obessed with how I look. I wanted to be the Abercombie and Hollister people. I wanted to look, dress, and act like them. The funny thing is, in most of those ads the people were half naked. I did not care though. What I realized through writing these papers is simple: Education is not the problem.