We’re forwarding this message to you from our friends in Christian Concern.
Sex education campaigners, and some backbench Peers, want to make sex education compulsory in primary schools by forcing a vote at the Report Stage of the Education Bill on Monday 24 October.
At present primary schools are not forced to teach sex education. Yet if it becomes part of the national curriculum then highly explicit resources are likely to be widely used for children as young as five.
Please write to a Peer and ask them to (in your own words):
- Oppose any amendments which force sex education onto primary schools.
- Protect children from graphic material in the classroom.
- Protect the right of head teachers and governors to decide what is best for children at their schools.
You can pick a Peer to write to here
The coalition, which does not support this measure, does not have an overall majority in the Lords and could lose the vote, so please help lobby on this issue if you can.
A guide with further details and examples of the graphic teaching materials used has been produced by the Christian Institute and can be found here.
October 24, 2011 at 7:01 pm |
I can’t believe the bigotted crap that comes out of this website. We have the highest teen pregnancy rate in Europe,not to mention STI infections. Get a grip
October 24, 2011 at 8:16 pm |
It is precisely because we have the highest teen pregnancy rate in Europe and high rates of STI infections amongst teenagers (children) that we are campaigning to keep any discussion about sex out of Primary Schools. Over the past 30 years we have had more and more sex education and the problems have got worse, not better. Primary school children should not have knowledge of sex. As a society we have ruined childhood. Children exposed to early sex education are inclined to experiment with their new knowledge, esp as the fact that it is illegal makes it somehow more attractive. This leads to the highest teen pregnancy rate in Europe and high rates of STI. This secular-humanist approach to morality has failed.
it is time to more forward and re-state traditional (Christian) family values, with an emphasis on chasity before mariage.