Tuesday, March 10, 2015

Parents need to assert their rights in sex ed debate: Letter


In response to your editorial on the sex ed update. You do not speak for the Roman Catholic school board.

Sex education is not new, but never before has it attempted to expose children to so much so soon. Sex education will now include more than a movie about menstruation and a class or two in human reproduction. It will now begin in kindergarten and continue into high school.

Sex education will now introduce advanced material too early, before children are psychologically ready to absorb it. It will teach details of intimate behaviour to children in a group that is best conveyed one-on-one or through texts a child can read alone. Sex education will now teach sex as a behaviour that is detached from any moral component, apart from the responsibility not to spread disease or get pregnant.  (more...)


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