No Sex Ed For British Kids
April 8, 2010 No Comments
In November we happily reported that sex education would be mandatory in British schools from the age of 15.
Sadly, in the rush to push a few bills through parliament before the election next month, this policy has been scrapped.
Looks like parents will be able to withdraw their children from sex education all through school which means some kids will get none.
These will, of course, be those from religious and conservative families, who I doubt very much will get any sex education at home beyond, “Don’t have sex until you are married!”.
Way to deal with the incredibly high teenage pregnancy rates and STIs, Britain!
This saddens me. For a start, 15-years-old is much too late to have sex ed as mandatory; kids need to learn this stuff as they enter puberty and start thinking about having relationships.
But to scrap it all together is ludicrous. Let’s hope the new government puts it back on the table.
Under plans, children as young as five would have been given lessons as part of a move to put personal, social, health and economic education (PSHE) onto the National Curriculum for the first time.
This would be great. PSHE definitely needs to be on the National Curriculum, it’s essential knowledge for leading a healthy and happy life.
Lisa Power, policy director of the Terrence Higgins Trust, said: “It’s a disgraceful betrayal of the next generation. There’s been very widespread agreement that young people need better sex and relationships education.
“The Government does not have an excuse that they did not know the date that the election was coming.”
Of course, most kids do get some form of sex education.
And most are techno-savvy enough to find what they want online, but how reliable is this? Is this really what we want for the next generation?
