Too much information

[anotheoldgit]

http://tinyurl.com/64deddl

When some children are leaving school barely able to read or write, is this the type of thing that they should be filling our children's heads with?

[andy-hughes]

It does appear that some councils are far too willing to impress adult perceptions onto young minds which are clearly not capable of the correct level of intellectual understanding.

Once again, the pendulum has swung too far - from children being woefully under-educated in matters concerning reproduction and sexual health, to as you quity rightly say AOG - 'too much information'.

The golden rule regarding education to any age group about any subject is - information at the level of the recipients' comprehension.

For the same reason you would not start debating the ethics of Hitler's Final Solution with three-year-olds, you would not start using words like 'vagina' and 'sperm' to five-year-olds.

This wooly-headed over-liberal nonsense will saimply lead to confusion and fear for young minds, and is patently wrong.

Literacy, is, as you confirm AOG, woefully under-taught due to the constrctions of the National Curriculum (another good idea poorly thought through and implemented) - and this forcing of 'over-education' will simply take up valuable time from that essential plank of basic education.

I for one would withdraw my child from these classes, if I had a child of primary age.

[bednobs]

3 page discussion here http://www.theanswerb...k/Question996245.html

[pastafreak]

bedknobs beat me to it.

[ummmm]

To be fair...AOG doesn't frequent CB much...

[andy-hughes]

AOG - the debate is pretty lively over on Chatterbacnk - see you there?

[andy-hughes]

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[MCR--83]

I personally would be horrified if my daughter, who is 6, was introduced to any of this literature. It is unecessary and is stealing the last bit of innocence children have these days. From what I can remember, I was first shown any form of sex education at about 11, last year of primary school. It was much more scientific, educational and not something resembling a comic strip from a tabloid newspaper. I will certainly not allow my daughter to part take in any of these lessons, and I doubt the majority of the other mums and dads I know will either.