Compulsory sex education?
Hi all (if there’s anyone left!), it’s been a while, hasn’t it? You’ll be glad to know that, five hours or so into my new job, I’ve yet to break the new boss’ favourite coffee cup.
Anyway, the Observer seems to think compulsory SRE is on the way (though the Mail irritatingly perpetuates the misconception that it’s all about telling 5 year-olds how to perform passable oral sex…) Hurrah! Except that the IAG on sexual health and the IAG on teenage pregnancy have recommended the same thing in every annual report for the last five or so years, so why this time it’s worthy of a front page, I don’t know. Maybe we’ve finally got some ministers who might understand why it would be a good thing…
Lets hope so. What place is the unacceptability of domestic violence going to have in SRE? From my own experience of PHSE we didn’t touch on it once (although I know some good peer-led work has been done here in County Durham). We got all the stuff about biology, contraception etc early on in secondary school - it wasn’t until sixth form that we ever got to how to assert what we want (and don’t want) in a relationship and barely touched on LGB relationships at all.
Will be quite some turnaround for some Labour politicians, who were using Daily Mail arguments to attack the Lib Dems before the last election over a similar policy on sex education. Let’s just hope they will be willing to do it.
Why all this obsession with filth?
Why do certain politicians feel the need to expose children to teaching on unnatural sexual practices and indeed why expose them to the subject at all? This is surely the natural role of the parent?
More and more we are witnessing the encroachment of the nanny socialist state upon private family life. Education is no loner about equipping children with essential basic skills but filling their minds with left wing political crap!
Education now=mass conditioning of young minds.
Welcome to Blair`s “Britain”!
So, apparently Wulf thinks that the natural role of the parent is to expose children to teaching on unnatural sexual practices. How very modern of him.
If that’s not what Wulf means, which I concede is just about possible, I guess that proves that education is no longer about equipping children with essential basic skills such as the ability to construct coherent paragraphs.
Wulf has a lot of views - all of the ones he expressed over at my blog were pretty horrific - Holocaust denial and bemoaning the destruction of Britain’s “indigenous population”, IIRC. Which is why I banned him.
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Gosh, your arguments are so mature and grown-up that I just can’t resist.
/giggles