Sex education could become compulsory in all state schools under a Bill introduced by Brighton MP Caroline Lucas.
Under current law, free schools and academies are not required to follow the national curriculum. Moreover, many parents choose for their children to opt-out of sex education classes, preferring to offer chastity-based education at home.
Caroline Lucas’s private members bill would force all state schools to offer sex education. Known as Personal, Social, Health and Economic Education (Statutory Requirement) Bill 2014-15, it is expected to have its second reading debate on 27 February 2015. Meanwhile, Parliament has been collecting information from witnesses for and against the proposals.
A very revealing article appeared in the Guardian last week giving a glimpse of some of the disturbing content presented to students under the guise of “sex education”, including three-dimensional pornography (although Sally Weale, the author of the Guardian article, seemed to think it was great). If Lucas’s Bill passes, we can expect UK schools to be flooded with these types of crude lessons, ostensibly to prevent sexual violence and inform students of things like consent and STDs.
Although the proposals are supported by most of the “experts” in the establishment, parents are overwhelmingly opposed to it. Last year a Labour amendment to the Children and Families Bill proposing the same was voted against by Liberal Democrats and Conservatives.
Professor David Paton, chair of industrial economics at the University of Nottingham, expressed the feeling of many when he said
“There seems no sound reason to introduce statutory SRE in schools or to end the right to parents/carers to opt their children out of school-based SRE.”
“What is interesting is that professional organisations are pushing for statutory sex education but almost all of the responses from parents are against. There is an ideological divide about who are the experts.”
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To Greg Boraman,
In regard to “evolution/the big bang etc” what facts are you talking about? Your comment has been a waste of time because you have not been specific.
…..at which point we all ought to home -educate our children!
more cultural Marxism, heaven help us.
Btw, when do schools these days actually teach any facts, etc that would help kids be useful in the job market? Seems to be all about social engineering.
The only facts schools teach are those proscribed by the National Curriculum. The new, younger generation of teachers only know what they have learnt during their own progress through that curriculum and as the older teachers retire, the entire sum of knowledge in our schools consists of nothing but that i.e. the British population will only know what the government wants it to know. Anybody who dares to read around and produces an unauthorised fact will be a dangerous person, a heretic. It is not difficult to imagine a future of book-burnings and imprisonment of intellectuals, is it? One of my daughters volunteers at a charity shop (NOT Red Cross, I hasten to add!) and she says the normal procedure is that any book donations deemed too old get thrown out.