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| QUOTE | Compulsory sex education for children under five proposed
Children as young as four years old should have compulsory sex education, MPs say today.
By James Kirkup, Political Correspondent
Last Updated: 3:27PM BST 26 Aug 2008
A cross-party group of MPs is calling on the Government to make advice on sexual health and relationships mandatory in all schools.
The appeal, made in a letter to The Daily Telegraph, comes as ministers draw up plans to extend the scope of sex education provided in schools.
Despite repeated campaigns and promises from ministers, Britain's teenage pregnancy rates remain among the highest in the developed world.
Figures also suggest that sexually transmitted diseases are becoming more prevalent among children.
The MPs, led by Chris Bryant, a parliamentary aide to Harriet Harman, the Labour deputy leader, say the answer is to give children more information about sex, contraception and relationships.
Under existing rules, all children must be taught the basic biological facts of human reproduction, which are sometimes taught in science classes. There is no obligation for children to receive dedicated teaching about the social and emotional aspects of sexual behaviour.
That must change, the MPs say in their letter, which is also signed by charities including Terrence Higgins Trust, the Family Planning Association and the Teenage Pregnancy Independent Advisory Group.
"We call on the Government to guarantee appropriate sex and relationship education in every primary and secondary school by putting personal, social and health education on a statutory basis as part of the national curriculum," it says.
"International evidence suggests that high quality sex and relationship education that puts sex in its proper context, that starts early enough to make a difference and that gives youngsters the confidence and ability to make well-informed decisions helps young people delay their first sexual experience and leads to lower teenage pregnancy levels."
Critics believe that extending sex education to primary school aged children it risks sexualising children at a younger age and that there is no concrete proof it actually makes any difference.
The Family Education Trust, a campaign group, argues there is "no evidence" that starting sex education at the age of four would reduce the rates of teenage pregnancy.
The group said: "We have had 30 years of sex education in secondary schools and it has never been more easy for teenagers to get hold of contraception without their parents knowing, yet both abortion rates and sexually transmitted infection rates have continued to rise."
Jim Knight, the schools minister, is finalising a review of Sex and Relationship Education intended to "improve the quality and consistency of provision to young people"
Mr Bryant says he is "confident" that ministers will take action to improve what he called "sub-standard sex and relationship education."
One in three secondary schools in England now has a sexual health clinic to give condoms, pregnancy tests and even morning-after pills to children as young as 11, according to a study published in June.
Government figures published in the same month disclosed that the number of abortions in girls under 16 last year rose 10 per cent, up to 4,376 from 3,990.
The number of girls aged under 18 who became pregnant was 41,593 in 2006 and official statistics suggest that a Government target of halving the number of teenage pregnancies by 2010 will be missed by 20 years.
Department of Health data shows that between 2002 and 2006, 11,256 under-16s were diagnosed with gonorrhoea, chlamydia, syphilis, herpes or genital warts.
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Perhaps the sex education authorities will next consider appointing Gary Glitter to lead the way in teaching kiddies sex ed. Sometimes when I reflect on the way society and the education system is going these days, makes one lose the will to live. I am just thankful that my children are now grown up.  |
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| QUOTE (CattusVobiscum @ Aug 30 2008, 03:55 AM) | | QUOTE (Lark Ascending @ Aug 29 2008, 05:42 AM) | Perhaps the sex education authorities will next consider appointing Gary Glitter to lead the way in teaching kiddies sex ed.
Sometimes when I reflect on the way society and the education system is going these days, makes one lose the will to live. I am just thankful that my children are now grown up.
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Sex education authorities? I hope you're joking.  |
Yes, it reminds me of the saying, what do you want for your kids - sex training or s e x education.
Somebody said to me the other day, that of course western new age governments are not in the slightest bit interested in high acheiving pupils or schools.
The atheistic agendas, equality , one world, one order agendas, trump all of that.
The brightest ones in any event, will be seconded to the new world order and the lumpen proletariat will be consigned to watching telly and soccer.
After all, if you were the new world order government, the last thing you would want surely, is a well educated , morally adjusted population, who would doubtless and rightly want big changes at the top.
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Sex education for six-year-olds
A sex education booklet aimed at six-year-olds has been published by a UK sexual health charity.
FPA, formerly the Family Planning Association, said the comic would be available for all UK schools to buy.
The 12-page booklet asks children to identify what the differences are between the two genders.
Parents have the right to prevent their children from seeing it but family campaigners have called it an attack on children's "natural modesty".
The pamphlet is called Let's Grow with Nisha and Joe and the FPA hopes it will encourage discussion about the facts of life at a young age.
Educational experience
Topics covered include naming parts of the body, the importance of family and friends and how to keep safe.
The charity's chief executive, Julie Bentley, said: "Sex and relationships education at this age is about learning basic information and skills, in exactly the same way that children start with ABC when they begin to read and write.
She said the six and seven-year-old target age group wanted to talk about their feelings, bodies, and relationships.
"It's important that they have this information before their bodies start to change.
"Talking about body parts is often easier for children when they are younger as they are less self-conscious and less sensitive about their bodies."
This is all part of an exercise to break down children's inhibitions and natural sense of modesty.
Norman Wells
Family and Youth Concern
But Norman Wells, director of Family and Youth Concern, said it was up to parents and carers to teach sex education to children.
"This is all part of an exercise to break down children's inhibitions and natural sense of modesty.
"Most parents would be very concerned if they knew that their children were being given literature at school produced by an organisation that doesn't put sexual intimacy in a clear moral context and that fails to respect the role of parents."
He said the FPA had published the booklet as part of a plan to put pressure on the government as it reviews sex and relationship education in schools.
This year Northern Ireland has made relationships and sexuality education compulsory for school children from the age of five.
Elsewhere, schools must teach pupils the basics of human reproduction as part of their science lessons, but there is nothing about the emotional side of sex and relationships.
The charity has tested the booklet in more than 50 primary schools with pupils and teachers having input to the comic's content and design. It has printed 50,000 copies.
Children are encouraged to take the booklet home and show it to their parents and carers. |
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That story's also on LifeSiteNews: | QUOTE | Explicit "Sex-Education" Pamphlet to be Given to Six Year-Olds in British Schools
By Hilary White
LONDON, September 18, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Six year-old children in British schools will be given puzzles and games to help them identify their sexual organs as part of a new government-funded sex-education initiative. The Family Planning Association (FPA) has produced a 12-page comic-style booklet entitled "Let's Grow with Nisha and Joe" that includes pictures of naked boys and girls and quizzes to help teach clinical terminology.
The pamphlet, the FPA says, introduces "ideas about love, relationships and body names at a very basic level." The FPA has permission from the education ministry to distribute the pamphlet in schools where, they hope, teachers will use it in classrooms with an age group that has never before been targeted with sex-education.
"The booklet answers the questions that six-year-olds are already asking about themselves, their families and the world around them," said Julie Bentley, chief executive of the FPA.
One sex-education proponent wrote in an op-ed in the Times that the only possible reason parents and family rights groups could have to try to withhold the pamphlet from children is "shame." Jennifer Howze wrote, "Why don't they applaud the move to bring education into a safe classroom environment conveyed by teachers or parents rather than leaving it to nuggets whispered by the know-it-all kid in the playground?
"It seems obvious to me. What so-called family campaigners' want to teach children about their bodies and sex is shame. Shame explains the thinking that there's something inappropriate and 'wrong' for a child to know the correct word to describe a part of their body."
But Margaret Morrissey, the spokesman for the lobby group Parents Out Loud, said that giving clinical terminology to children so young is an unfair burden to them.
"I am sure most parents will agree the truth is the very best answer but it is the degree of detail that is so important."
"It's unfair to burden very young children with explicit details and then wonder why they say words and do things not acceptable in schools or in society. We cannot expect small children to cope with the amount of information government want primary school to implant into childish minds."
"One wonders how the 'experts' reconcile themselves with the statistic the more we have offered detailed sex education the quicker teenage pregnancies and diseases have spread," she added.
Children are asked to list differences between boys' and girls' bodies and draw a line from words in boxes to the pictures of the body parts they identify.
FPA instructions for teachers says, "Young children can believe incorrect, confusing and misleading information about puberty and sex which they have worked out either on their own or with the help of friends and siblings."
The Family Planning Association, which receives full support from government education officials, is a leader among British organisations promoting what have been called the doctrines of "pan-sexualism" - completely unlimited sexual activity for everyone at any age, under the guise of "sexual health."
As such the FPA not only promotes sex-education for small children and teens, but contraception, abortion, sterilisation and homosexuality. Founded in 1930, the FPA was a part of the early 20th century eugenics movement that sought to improve society by eliminating "undesirable" classes and groups of people, including the poor, through birth control. Such organisations later evolved into the modern international population control movement. |
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| QUOTE | Sex education lessons 'to be compulsory in primary schools'
Sex education should be compulsory in all schools in an attempt to cut teenage pregnancy rates, a Government review will conclude.
By Graeme Paton, Education Editor
Last Updated: 9:12AM BST 18 Oct 2008
A report published next week is expected to recommend that pupils in primary and secondary schools should receive classes on the human body, sexual health and relationships.
Basic lessons are expected to be given to under-11s following claims from experts that "gradual education" stops children rushing into sex when they get older.
The review - led by Jim Knight, the Schools Minister - is set to recommend a radical shake-up of lessons amid concerns that existing provision is "patchy" across England.
The moves are likely to be opposed by family campaigners amid claims many parents oppose subjecting children to sex education at a young age.
But speaking in the House of Commons this week, Mr Knight said: "The international evidence suggests that teaching aspects of sex and relationship education before puberty has a positive effect on such things as teenage pregnancy rates. Clearly, that has to be done with a high degree of sensitivity and... the involvement of parents, with children reaching puberty at different ages. We must ensure not only that, as a society, we are comfortable with the level of detail and of education that people receive during sex education, but that we are strong on relationship education."
Britain's teenage pregnancy rates remain among the highest in the developed world - and figures suggest sexually transmitted diseases are becoming more prevalent among children.
In a recent survey by the Sex Education Forum, a third of young people said they received poor advice on sex at school.
At present, all primary and secondary pupils have to learn about the biology of reproduction in science.
Primary schools can limit sex education to the science curriculum, but secondary schools must go further, covering issues such as relationships and sexually transmitted diseases.
Many choose to include it as part of personal, social and health education lessons, although the subject is not a compulsory part of the National Curriculum.
Mr Knight said he had received "many strong representations" for making PSHE statutory at all ages to address the problem.
"It is important that we as a society allow better sex and relationship education in both primary and secondary schools without sexualising young people too early," he said. "It is right to share the responsibility between home and school. It is not something that schools can deliver on their own - parents need to have a loud voice in how sex and relationship education is delivered for their children. As a Government we put the safeguarding of children as our highest priority and we will continue to do so."
Earlier this year, leading charities including the Sex Education Forum and Brook, the sexual health advice service, called for lessons to be compulsory in all schools. Both organisations are taking part in the Government review.
But also speaking in the Commons this week, Sir Patrick Cormack, Conservative MP for South Staffordshire, said: "Whatever may be done in secondary schools, is there not something deeply disturbing about a society in which young primary school children can be taught the mechanics of sex by those who are not allowed to put a comforting hand on their shoulders?"
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| QUOTE | The worst child abuse perpetrator in Britain is the Government
Posted By: Gerald Warner at Oct 23, 2008 at 08:57:06 [General]
The most widespread child abuse in Britain is perpetrated by the Government. As the main paper reports today, "Children as young as five will be given sex education under Government plans to cut teenage pregnancy and sexually-transmitted diseases." Why? How many five-year-olds are pregnant or infected with a sexually-transmitted disease?
The reality is that the Government is determined to abolish traditional morality and to assert its control over children of all ages, to the exclusion of parents. Childhood innocence - what remains of it - is to be extinguished. There is an almost satanic fanaticism about Government-sponsored social engineers' determination to corrupt the minds of children through premature sexualisation.
As teenage pregnancies and the incidence of sexually transmitted diseases relentlessly increase, the demand is for ever more "education", when the figures show that it is the endless focusing on sexual matters that has caused the problem. Would the authorities fight gun crime by issuing pistols to children? Yet, the story says, "Jim Knight, the Schools Minister, who has led the review, insisted exposure to sex education before puberty reduced teenage pregnancy rates." What a buffoon.
And what a sewer this country has turned into, with 12-year-old girls being groomed for promiscuity by vaccination against the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) - the "slag jag" - as parents and teachers make clear what their expectations of them are. The source of this epidemic of decadence is to be found in the Palace of Westminster. Last night the swarming pathogens on the green benches voted to legalise the creation of human/animal hybrids - already banned in 21 countries - as well as the production of "saviour siblings" and IVF for lesbians, both voted on without the formality of a debate.
Labour would not even permit its MPs a free vote on matters that are overwhelmingly issues of conscience. This degenerate regime regards teenage virginity as an illness, human embryos as tadpoles and the most basic human decencies as politically incorrect. The legalisation of human/animal hybrid research makes Britain a rogue state in the eyes of the civilised world; the Government prefers to describe it as "ground-breaking". So was Auschwitz.
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| QUOTE | Catholic bishops back sex education for primary school children
Posted By: Damian Thompson at Oct 23, 2008 at 14:41:31 [General]
The Government has come up with the revolting idea of teaching sex education to children as young as five – and the Catholic Education Service (CES), funded by the bishops of England and Wales, supports it. Indeed, it announced today that it hopes that parents will not exercise their legal right to withdraw their children from these lessons, which will be taught in Catholic schools.
Oona Stannard, the politically correct chief executive of the Catholic Education Service for England and Wales, has put out a statement supporting the Government which should make orthodox Catholics really angry. (Do read Gerald Warner on this.) To be sure, there's a paragraph assuring us that Church teaching will be respected - but, as usual, it's very short on detail and carries the strong whiff of back-room negotiations with this uniquely anti-Catholic government.
Here's the fig-leaf: "Programmes of study are still to be drawn up but reassurance has been given that these will not be so prescriptive in character as to involve conflict with Catholic teaching [my italics]." And, er, that's it. We just have to trust Oona and her colleagues in, you've guessed it, Eccleston Square.
I'm disappointed by the low profile today of Archbishop Vincent Nichols of Birmingham, the bishop with the education portfolio. He has spoken powerfully in the past against the sexualisation of primary school children. But there's nothing powerful about Ms Stannard's ingratiating statement. She writes:
| QUOTE | | In the fashioning of SRE it is important that parental involvement is maintained. But it is also important to understand that good SRE, as carried out already in most Catholic schools, does not mean the early sexualisation of children and young people. In a Catholic school it means children learning about their uniqueness as part of God’s creation, his love for each person, and how this means we must respect one another. It helps children to establish friendships and it contributes to child protection. |
Sorry, but that's just typical CES right-on waffle. A later section is more revealing:
| QUOTE | | The statutory rights of parents to withdraw their children from sex education remain but it is our hope that parents will not find the need to exercise this right as children are likely to benefit from experiencing SRE amongst their friends and peers. [The constant use of the word "peers" is another tic of Lefty jargon.] |
You wouldn't guess from this that the Vatican is firmly opposed to sexual education of young children, would you? But then you wouldn't guess that Eccleston Square ultimately comes under the jurisdiction of Rome. We must just pray that the rumours that Pope Benedict is planning a radical shake-up of the English Church are true.
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| QUOTE | Catholic Church will collaborate with statutory sex and relationship classes in primary and secondary schools
On the day after Gordon Brown, the British prime minister, ensured that Parliament would not vote on pro-abortion amendments to extend the Abortion Act, the Government has announced plans which will ensure that children are being primed to embrace the abortion culture from 4 – 5 years old.
The British government announced today that it intends to make sex and relationship education compulsory throughout both primary and secondary schools. In a simultaneous announcement, the Catholic Education Service makes it clear, not only that it will collaborate with the government’s plans, but that it hopes that parents will not choose to opt out by withdrawing their children from sex education.
The CES says: “… the Government calls for PSHE [personal, social and health education] to be made statutory across all maintained schools in England, including primary and secondary. Programmes of study are still to be drawn up but reassurance has been given that these will not be so prescriptive in character as to involve conflict with Catholic teaching … The statutory rights of parents to withdraw their children from sex education remain but it is our hope that parents will not find the need to exercise this right as children are likely to benefit from experiencing SRE amongst their friends and peers. …"
The CES statement is painfully disingenuous – in view of what is known to be going on in Catholic schools as a consequence of government advisers already being welcomed by the Catholic Education Service in Catholic schools, a point I have a number of times in this blog.
And why does Catholic Church appear, through its Catholic Education Service in England, to be marching in step with the Government – even to the point of making their complementary policy announcements simultaneously?
The first task of everyone entrusted with the Gospel of life is, surely, to oppose government plans to promote and to entrench the abortion culture amongst young people of all faiths and none? SPUC will certainly be keeping its supporters posted on the implications of the government's plans and what constituents should be saying to their MPs.
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| QUOTE | School holds surprise 'Gay' Day for kindergartners
Parents outraged at public elementary's secretive 'coming out' event
SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Some parents are shocked to find their children are learning to be homosexual allies and will participate in "Coming Out Day" at a public elementary school tomorrow – and they claim the school failed to notify parents.
One mother of a kindergartner who attends Faith Ringgold School of Art and Science, a K-8 charter school in Hayward, Calif., said she asked her 5-year-old daughter what she was learning at school.
The little girl replied, "We're learning to be allies."
The mother also said a Gay Straight Alliance club regularly meets in the kindergarten classroom during lunch.
According to a Pacific Justice Institute report, Faith Ringgold opted not to inform the parents of its pro-homosexual activities beforehand. The school is celebrating "Gay and Lesbian History Month" and is in the process of observing "Ally Week," a pro-"gay" occasion usually geared toward high school students.
The school is scheduled to host discussions about families and has posted fliers on school grounds portraying only homosexuals. According to the report, a "TransAction Gender-Bender Read-Aloud" will take place Nov. 20. Students will listen to traditional stories with "gay" or transgender twists, to include "Jane and the Beanstalk."
Some parents only recently noticed posters promoting the school's "Coming Out Day" tomorrow – celebrated 12 days after the national "Coming Out Day" usually observed on Oct. 11. When WND contacted the school to confirm the event, a female representative replied, "Yes, it is scheduled on our calendar."
When asked if the school made any efforts to inform parents, she refused to answer and said Hayward Unified School District would have to respond to additional questions. However, the district did not answer its phones or e-mails, and a voicemail recording would not take messages. "Coming Out Day" is not listed on the district's online school calendar.
Some of the parents contacted Pacific Justice Institute for representation when they learned the school was pushing pro-"gay" events for young children without warning.
Brad Dacus, president of Pacific Justice Institute, said opponents of California's proposed ban on same-sex marriage, or Proposition 8, often say the measure would not have an effect on public schools – but this is one of many recent developments that prove otherwise.
"Do we need any further proof that gay activists will target children as early as possible?" he asked. "Opponents of traditional marriage keep telling us that Prop. 8 has nothing to do with education. In reality, they want to push the gay lifestyle on kindergartners, and we can only imagine how much worse it will be if Prop. 8 is defeated. This is not a scenario most Californians want replayed in their elementary schools."
Concerned individuals may contact Faith Ringgold School of Art and Science by calling (510) 889-7399. The Hayward Unified School District can be reached at (510)784-2600 or by filling out the district contact form.
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| QUOTE (Clare @ Oct 23 2008, 07:52 PM) | John Smeaton's blog
| QUOTE | Catholic Church will collaborate with statutory sex and relationship classes in primary and secondary schools
On the day after Gordon Brown, the British prime minister, ensured that Parliament would not vote on pro-abortion amendments to extend the Abortion Act, the Government has announced plans which will ensure that children are being primed to embrace the abortion culture from 4 – 5 years old.
The British government announced today that it intends to make sex and relationship education compulsory throughout both primary and secondary schools. In a simultaneous announcement, the Catholic Education Service makes it clear, not only that it will collaborate with the government’s plans, but that it hopes that parents will not choose to opt out by withdrawing their children from sex education.
The CES says: “… the Government calls for PSHE [personal, social and health education] to be made statutory across all maintained schools in England, including primary and secondary. Programmes of study are still to be drawn up but reassurance has been given that these will not be so prescriptive in character as to involve conflict with Catholic teaching … The statutory rights of parents to withdraw their children from sex education remain but it is our hope that parents will not find the need to exercise this right as children are likely to benefit from experiencing SRE amongst their friends and peers. …"
The CES statement is painfully disingenuous – in view of what is known to be going on in Catholic schools as a consequence of government advisers already being welcomed by the Catholic Education Service in Catholic schools, a point I have a number of times in this blog.
And why does Catholic Church appear, through its Catholic Education Service in England, to be marching in step with the Government – even to the point of making their complementary policy announcements simultaneously?
The first task of everyone entrusted with the Gospel of life is, surely, to oppose government plans to promote and to entrench the abortion culture amongst young people of all faiths and none? SPUC will certainly be keeping its supporters posted on the implications of the government's plans and what constituents should be saying to their MPs.
Posted by John Smeaton, SPUC director at 16:30 |
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| QUOTE | | The statutory rights of parents to withdraw their children from sex education remain |
Now, I'm assuming the 'resisting' types will resist.
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