Dear Editor,
YES, we must include all sexually transmitted diseases when
educating young people in junior high and high school. STD’s and
AIDS have not been talked about enough in schools and it could
easily be taught in all the subjects.
Dear Editor,
YES, we must include all sexually transmitted diseases when educating young people in junior high and high school. STD’s and AIDS have not been talked about enough in schools and it could easily be taught in all the subjects.
For example, in art class students could make panels for the AIDS Quilt and in math class, students could work with the statistics of HIV/AIDS throughout the world. In geography/history, students could focus in on the areas where the highest infection HIV/AIDS infection rate is located. In science/health class, students should learn that abstinence is the only safest way to prevent STD’s and AIDS.
However, they should be taught the proper use of a condom. Silence is death and knowledge is life when dealing with AIDS. We must stop the whispering and begin the shouting.
Nancy Draper, author of “A Burden of Silence: My Mother’s Battle with AIDS,”
New Hampshire
