UK: Parents set to lose right to veto sex education at age 15
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-44886271
Sex education needs to be mandatory everywhere.
I don't agree with letting authoritarianism rule law, however it's something that has an objective, across the board gain. Knowing how your body works is essential to living in a society of people.
I'd go further and say I'm always in favour of law that enforces something on everyone that has no disadvantages for any member of society - how can you go wrong?
but what if my family are members of a religion that believe that sex doesn't exist huh?
Not only that but the supposed """DISADVANTAGES""" are exclusively brought up using religious thinking and religious """EVIDENCE""".
A bit sad how I see changes like this and think that if a President or Congress did them there'd be huge controversy and anyone involved would lose reelection.
I dunno if I'm overthinking this, but is 15 not a bit late? I'm assuming sex education includes talks about puberty and such because don't most girls start around 12?
Otherwise, the inclusion of lgbt, specifically trans (i'm probably bias) and mental heath is really cool to see.
Not British, but I remember when my parents decided to temporarily take me out of a science class so that I wouldn't hear someone in a science class teach sex ed. They were relatively religious and right-leaning.
I didn't mind it much back then, but it was weird that I was apparently one of the two students that had to be taken out of class just because of that. Now that I think back on that, it's weird that not even half the students were pulled out considering how much of a taboo sex kinda is with parents in America.
I'm not 100% in favor of sex ed for really young kids, but they should know this stuff by 15.
And if the kid is part of a cult or restrictive religion that doesn't want them to hear this stuff, there's always homeschool, I guess.
Personally I wish I was taught about that during my k-12 education. It still makes me feel awful that I couldn't understand what some of my peers were going through.
Sex ed should be compulsory with no option of opt-out. It's ridiculous we allow religious loons to disadvantage their kids this way.
then the class doesn't exist
my religion doesn't recognize bills that strike down religious exemptions soooooooooooooooooooo
Kids see their own naked bits every day. They're going to get curious.
We got ours in Year 4 (9/10 yo), and the girls had a different lecture/presentation to the guys.
We had ours in Year 5 (10/11) and to be honest I think sex education as is still sucks. It only seems to cover the topic of STDs and showing lads shock photos of spotty yellow balls rather than the important nuanaces of contraception, consent, mental health etc. Or maybe this is just my personal experience, don't know if any other UKFPers had any different.
Hopefully this leads the way to eventually getting rid of pseudoscience based transphobic views.
We had ours at the same age. The girls were taken to the classroom across the hallway and the boys from that room were brought into ours. From what we talked about later it seems like we were all told the same stuff but with our gender specific stuff first and the other gender's stuff after.
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