{"id":8465,"date":"2015-03-24T21:09:48","date_gmt":"2015-03-24T21:09:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/?p=8465"},"modified":"2025-07-10T08:11:51","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T07:11:51","slug":"consent-lessons-for-11-year-olds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/index.php\/consent-lessons-for-11-year-olds\/","title":{"rendered":"Consent Lessons for 11-Year-Olds"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Education Secretary Nicky Morgan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Education secretary Nicky Morgan has commissioned<\/strong> <\/a>new guidance to schools for giving lessons about consent and rape to 11-year-olds. The new guidelines will start after the Easter holidays.<\/p>\n

Scheduled to be taught in PSHE classes, the new lessons are supposed to give<\/strong> <\/a>children \u201ca better understanding of the society around them\u201d so they can make smart choices and stay safe.<\/p>\n

In an online statement<\/strong><\/a>, the PSHEA said: “The key learning set out in this guidance is respecting the rights of others, communication, negotiation and consider[ing] the freedom and capacity of others to make choices.” The association also said that students would learn that sexual activity for those under the age of 16 was illegal.<\/p>\n

Additionally, students will learn about whether or not consent is attainable when a person is drunk, and the issue of gay rape will also be added to the curriculum later this year. Many of the lesson plans involve situational ethics and encourage the student to discuss what is right or wrong in these circumstances. For example, one of the questions is: \u201cWhat misconceptions about consent would an alien get if their only evidence was from pornography?\u201d<\/p>\n

The Government has given formal guidelines for the classes, saying that the topic should be broached \u201cbefore young people are sexually active,\u201d because it will be ineffective after that. The proposal made sure to mention how\u00a0acknowledgment of sexually active young people is not the same as \u201cencouraging underage sexual activity.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ms Morgan publicized the measures <\/strong> <\/a>on International Women\u2019s Day and stressed that the curriculum will be age appropriate and in line with British values. The goal is to give instructors the tools and confidence to teach these difficult topics.<\/p>\n

These guidelines were introduced amid growing concerns for the safety of children, particularly girls. Rising numbers of child \u201csexting\u201d and child exploitation cases in Rotherham and Oxford are just some of the issues being cited.<\/p>\n

Writing in The Sunday Times,\u00a0<\/em>Ms Morgan stated<\/strong><\/a>: ‘Mothers at the school gates often tell me about their worries for their daughters. They tell me that on top of the usual stress of school life and teenage years, they want to know their girls are being taught what a healthy relationship looks like and how to say “no.”‘<\/p>\n

However, other parents are concerned that these classes could put even more pressure on children to engage in sexual activity at a young age, causing an \u201cerosion of childhood.\u201d<\/p>\n

Family Education Trust spokeswoman Sarah Carter disagreed with the proposed effectiveness lessons, saying<\/strong><\/a>: ‘I work with vulnerable teenagers who have been groomed and this is not going to protect them. This creates the idea that you will find yourself in this situation so make sure you give express consent.’<\/p>\n

This curriculum is not mandatory, and\u00a0the PSHE Association has expressed disapproval of the fact that Morgan has made a harder push for these classes to be required in all schools.<\/p>\n

The 60-page guidelines contain eight suggested lessons for teachers. By the end of the course students will understand what sexual consent is and what constitutes a healthy relationship (significantly, however, students are not taught that it is marriage that constitutes a healthy sexual relationship). They will also be taught about pornography and rape. See this article<\/strong><\/a> in The Daily Telegraph<\/em> for a summary of these eight suggested lessons.<\/p>\n

Despite these efforts, many are concerned that ‘consent lessons’ will do virtually nothing to help children stay safe, particularly girls. In a rape situation the assailant is not going to desist simply because the person he is attacking does not give consent. That is why child exploitation is a problem in the first place. The lessons do not address the root of the problem, which is men who think it is acceptable to take advantage of a child or woman. Instead, all these lessons will accomplish will be to lower important the barriers of innocent children by prematurely introducing them to the disordered side of sexuality.<\/p>\n

In the cases of sexual activity between school children, schools should do more to promote chastity. Just because children engage in underage sexual activity does not mean it is right or normal, even if the parties involved have both consented.<\/p>\n

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