tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32774679.post6406698390321298430..comments2023-11-15T07:14:06.265+00:00Comments on Catholic Action UK: NACF members on Sex EducationUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32774679.post-47427983829293548152007-07-06T13:08:00.000+01:002007-07-06T13:08:00.000+01:00Engaged in the battle once again...Engaged in the battle once again...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32774679.post-56585917530425862132007-07-04T18:43:00.000+01:002007-07-04T18:43:00.000+01:00This is very good advice: thank you!This is very good advice: thank you!Catholic Action UKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00067972167564873297noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32774679.post-42557233149972991632007-07-04T11:09:00.000+01:002007-07-04T11:09:00.000+01:00Can I just remind anyone with children, of the fol...Can I just remind anyone with children, of the following: <BR/><BR/>1. Primary schools are not obliged to teach sex education at all. They are obliged to have a policy on sex ed: that policy can be "we don't teach it!" Parents have the right to withdraw the children from sex ed. <BR/><BR/>2. Secondary schools disperse the subject matter among as many areas of the curriculum as possible. So be aware that withdrawing the child from Sex ed - only ever means a small portion of Sex ed. Check with Science and RE departments, obviously PSHE or PSCHE - but also beware of unscheduled "health and hygiene" or "growing up" type programmes. <BR/><BR/>[In both primary and secondary the worst aspects are often reserved until now - the last month or so of the school year - perhaps because it leaves parents less time to complain after the damage is done. If you want to keep your child away from this evil in the classroom - it's definitely worth writing or calling the school now.]<BR/><BR/>3. Chastity presentations in school are marvellous - and worth battling for, but in current conditions can often only really be **damage limitation**.<BR/><BR/>4. Sex Ed is the parents' job - and both the parent and the child benefit from dealing with the subject in that environment, and one-to-one. No one suggests that it is easy in a sexualised culture like ours. Worth the pain though.<BR/><BR/>5. No matter how *wholesome* the program, sex ed has no place in the classroom. Even in single sex groups - the classroom setting and *authoritative-but-non-parental* teacher - effects a breakdown of the child's natural modesty, and destroys the *shame* that is the heart's natural response to having private things exposed in public.<BR/><BR/>6. These things are tools of Satan. Don't be fooled - even good concerned teachers, trying to minimise the damage, have been caught up in this evil thanks to a combination of teacher-training standards and the nat.curriculum - and have it reinforced regularly thanks to inset days and such like.<BR/><BR/>7. Homeschooling is an obvious answer - but not always possible, or practical. It's a good idea to pre-empt the school if possible - and introduce the subject slowly and gently as your child grows ready - in a familiar, homely and godly way.<BR/><BR/>I've been busy on this particular battle field, nearly without a break for nigh on 10 years now - thanks to 4 children in and out of school over that time. I hope the above is helpful.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com