Sex Education
Ed "Balls" has removed the rights of parents to take their children out of sex education classes after the deligtful little poppets are 15 years old. Now clearly the state says you can fuck your girlfriend when she's 16, so it makes sense that she at least knows where babies come from before her birthday. Normally, the only people who object to sex education are religious lunatics but in this case the Weird-Beards of the CoE and the Smells 'n Bells crowd are onside, leaving only the rug-butters and assorted minor protestant cults complaining about 'parents' rights'.
Religion is a mental illness, which has caused too much trouble over the years. But so is a belief in the power of the state. Ask yourself this: did you honestly learn about sex and relationships in class, or out of it?
Neither god-botherers, nor the statists are going to have any effect at all on teen pregnancies via changes to the national curriculum. The religious nutters think that by keeping children innocent and pure they will become model citizens rather than creepy and damaged little homunculi, nor the state from whom whom sex education, and even more so relationship education, will be ignored. Does anyone really believe that little Sharon and Tracey get knocked up because they can't work out how to take the pill, or didn't roll a condom onto a cucumber in sex-ed?
People learn about sex the way they've always done: from older siblings, from playground gossip and from parents. If teenage pregnancy and a council house of your very own are normal down your way, then some bearded twat with leather patches on his tweed jacket telling you how not to get pregnant will have no effect. You've got to change the incentives in society to get an effect. People have a habit, when told what to do, of telling those telling them to 'fuck off'.
By all means teach about the mechanics of pregnancy in biology class, but don't pretend that teaching, or indeed not teaching, about sex and relationships will have any impact at all on either teen pregnancy rates or the spread of cock-rotting clap. Some things are not amenable to book learning. Unless of course it's done like this:
4 immoderate opinions:
Ahh, those were the days...when a teacher could lob a blackboard duster at an unruly and disruptive pupil.
I think there's something creepy and sinister about the state trying enforce this sort of thing. And at age 5 for gawds sake.
Recall the the national currliculum was origially only brought in for literacy and numeracy. Unfortunately it was long ago hijacked by the educational establishment and been subjected to relentless mission creep.
I remember my (then) 11 year old daughter telling me about the sex education she had received at primary school when she was 8, "I know it's important Daddy but we're not there yet".
I don't know what I think about this post. Sometimes your irreverence is charming and sometimes it isn't.
Likewise,I learned all I needed to know in the playground and round me mates' houses some years before putting it into practise, plus a bit in 3rd year Biology with frogs.
Don't these twats ever understand that the more they shreik 'don't do this and don't do that' the more they encourage that very thing. The one that really amuses me is the idea that preaching to children about sexual diversity is in any way at all going to reduce homophobia. No it won't, it will make it worse.
No teen pregnacies in my 1970s crowd btw but loads of fags, fair amount of booze, bit of puff for each of which we were shown silly government Promo films.
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