When is the right time?

The teenage pregnancy, abortion, and birth rates have been slowly declining since 1991 according to advocatesforyouth.org. But still every year there are around 750,000 to 850,000 teenage women experience pregnancy, and 74-95% of those are unintentional. Although these numbers went down in the last couple of decades the number of teenage pregnancies is outstanding.
Sex Ed. has been a debate between schools over the years. In my high school we were taught Health in the 9th grade. It was partially Sex Ed. and partially facts on the human body. Although this was a required course you didn't actually had to take it your 9th grade year. When it came to the athletes they went and worked out while getting an A credit for the course. Some students got this partial information 9th grade, some eventually, and some not at all.
Most of us learn most of these facts from friends, family, and media. But some facts are not widely know. The record low for teen pregnancies was 43 out every 1000 women in 2002. That is almost 1 out of every 20 teens in the United States. The decreases in these numbers are not the product of the Sex Ed. classes but because of better contraceptives. So the reason teens are having less pregnancies are because of better ways to prevent it not because schools are teaching kids not have sex. Although nothing is going to stop people from having sex a proper education might prevent the spread of sexually transmitted diseases. A study by the CDC reported the an astonishing 1 in 4 teen girls has an STD.
So how early should we start Sex Ed.? There is not really an exact answer for that but it definitely should be sooner than high school. As I went through middle school kissing a girl was a big deal. When I graduated high school I learned that you get to become popular in middle school by sleeping with older guys. A girl in 6th grade at a local elementary school had a child. In 6th grade I was thinking about the new PlayStation games and what was for lunch and not how I am going to take care of a child.