ENHANCING AND DESIGNATING SEX EDUCATION AS A CURRICULUM IN SECODARY EDUCATION: PERCEPTION OF SIBULAN SCIENCE HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS (RESEARCH)

 

ENHANCING AND DESIGNATING SEX EDUCATION AS A CURRICULUM IN SECODARY EDUCATION:

PERCEPTION OF SIBULAN SCIENCE HIGH SCHOOL

STUDENTS

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Practical Research 2

Sibulan Science High School

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Adrian T. Divino

Dethel M. Raaging

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January 4, 2018

CHAPTER 1

PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND

Background of the study

One of the social issues in the Philippines is the early age pregnancy. According to WordVision.org (2016), Philippines has the highest rate of teenage pregnancies in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, 1 out of 10 young Filipino women (15-19 years old) is already a mother or pregnant with a first child. Often in this age the girls are still studying. Data from the Philippine Statistics Authority (2014) shows 24 babies are delivered by teenage mothers every hour. Not only pregnancies, increasingly contacted diseases are very rampant in the country. In May 2017, there were 1,098 new HIV antibody zero-positive individuals reported to the HIV/AIDS & ART Registry of the Philippines (HARP), most (95%) were male. The median age was 28 years old (age range: 2 year - 67 years). More than half belong to the 25 - 34 year age group while 30% were youth aged 15 - 24 years (Department of Health ,2017).

According to Philstar.com (2013) organized by UNIFPA (2013), one root causes teenage pregnancy is lack of education. Adolescents and youth must be given age-appropriate comprehensive sexuality education to develop the required knowledge and skills that will help them protect their health throughout their lives. Acquiring sex education in secondary education system openly helps the young minds to develop and learn more the advantages and most specially the risks in dealing sexual matters.     

One of the bases in pushing through this study is the documentary featured in GMA, Reel Time entitled “Hinog sa Pilit ” aired July 23, 2016. The documentary contains the real situation of the teenagers aging 14-19 years old with child or children. In an interview, a young woman said that “when we were using condom at that time this will not happened, we are not aware as well as  we don’t have knowledge where to get and how to use the condom.” The documentary shows that young minds are exposed to premarital sex and increasing number teenage pregnancies due to lack of awareness and knowledge on sexual matters.

This study made possible because of the observations and concerns of the common issue in our country, teenage pregnancy which brings our country as the highest rate of teenage pregnancy in Asia (PhilStar, 2016). This aims to help and improve the students in understanding the importance of having sex education as a subject in secondary school.

The Problem

 

The main concern of the study is to identify the different perception of the students in implementing sex education in the school and to know the different  advantages and disadvantages of having sex education as a subject in secondary education school year 2017-2018.

Statement of the Problem

The study also aims to answer the following questions:

1.      What are the different demographic profile of the students based on;

1.1  age

1.2  sex and

1.3  grade level

2.      What is the perception of the students on implementing sex education as a subject in secondary education?

CHAPTER V

SUMMARY CONCLUSION AND  RECOMMENDATION

SUMMARY

The goal of this study is to answer and identify the different perceptions of sex education to the students and its advantages and disadvantage when implementing such subject in the campus.

CONCLUSION

About 146 students are involved and participated in the study by answering the survey-questionnaire. Based on our data gathering we can conclude that different students have different perception in implementing sex education in the school. According to our data gathered almost all of the students strongly agree that school based sex education would decrease the rate of pre- marital pregnancy, this is the top perception of the students when the school will implement sex education.

On the other hand, they have different opinion in terms of the advantages and disadvantages of sex education. The advantages of sex education in the school are as follows: out of 146 students, 99 said that sexual abuse in children will be avoided. 67 out of 146 students said that teenage pregnancy can be avoided. Out of 146 students, 81 said that children can be transformed into responsible adults. And lastly, some students think that this could help to gain respect to each other and have mature understanding. While, the disadvantages that the respondents think in implementing sex education are as follows: out of 146 students, 46 said that sex education at school may be odds with the religious ideologies. Out of 146 students, 46 think that student may still or get embarrassed or excitable by subject matter. Another thing, 67 out of 146 students said that teachers appointed to this are mostly untrained as for how should may go about teaching sex education to students. Other answers are as follows: students may not be comfortable with the topic and lastly students will be triggered and try to do such thing (applying the real life situation).

 

RECOMMENDATION

For the school, it is recommended to apply this research to help students understand more the importance of hygiene and sex. For the Department of Health, it is recommended to support this study to lessen the probability of  HIV and aids in the society. To the department of education and teachers, it is highly recommended to support this study in order to build up students on what’s ahead. And lastly, for the future researchers who want to continue this study, the following is recommended:  putting high effort and time in conducting the study is highly appreciated. The future researcher should see an actual event and collect more actual stories and testimonies especially that can help strengthen the importance of implementing sex education in the school or campus. Observing the students in terms of their performance is highly encouraged to be implemented.