Why Sex Education in Schools? A bad idea? (Part 2)
Sex education today has become very varied from school to school. But should sex education be the responsibility of schools?
Sex education in the past has focused on the biology. (For a brief history of sex education, click here.) It used to focus on sexual reproduction and prevention of sexually transmitted diseases. But it started including discussion about relationships, contraception, sexuality, homosexuality, marriage equality, sexual fluidity, sexual equality, acceptance of transgender or the same-sex attracted.
What if you don't agree with what your school teaches your child during sex education classes? Different cultural and religious groups have strong opinions on what sex education should comprise of.
In large cosmopolitan cities like Sydney, where many cultures and beliefs meet, different groups lobby for their view of what sex education should look like. Very often, one view of what sex education should consist of gets imposed on the larger school population. However unlike religious education, where parents can opt the type of religious education class their children attend or opt out of it; parents do not have options to opt what type of sex education their children get taught, nor do can they opt out from sex education class.
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Sex education in the past has focused on the biology. (For a brief history of sex education, click here.) It used to focus on sexual reproduction and prevention of sexually transmitted diseases. But it started including discussion about relationships, contraception, sexuality, homosexuality, marriage equality, sexual fluidity, sexual equality, acceptance of transgender or the same-sex attracted.
What if you don't agree with what your school teaches your child during sex education classes? Different cultural and religious groups have strong opinions on what sex education should comprise of.
In large cosmopolitan cities like Sydney, where many cultures and beliefs meet, different groups lobby for their view of what sex education should look like. Very often, one view of what sex education should consist of gets imposed on the larger school population. However unlike religious education, where parents can opt the type of religious education class their children attend or opt out of it; parents do not have options to opt what type of sex education their children get taught, nor do can they opt out from sex education class.
Sex education content can be quite offensive to different cultural and religious groups if not taught to what these cultural and religious group practice. For example teaching of transgender acceptance or use of contraception can be offensive to various cultural and religious groups. Some parents have even been pushed to the extent of taking their children out of school.
In cities like Sydney, with its vast difference in culture and religion, should sex education be only taught at home? Should there not be an increased focus on enabling and empowering parents to be able to teach their children about sex at home? Are not parents, instead of schools, hold prime responsibility of the upbringing of their children?
If schools are worried about bullying because of difference (including same-sex attracted or transgender students), should they not then focus on teaching students about mutual respect (including respecting each other's sexual choices)? Respect does not need to equate to accept. But respect can go a long way to eliminate bullying.
So why not keep our children sex educated the way we want them to by keeping sex education at home?
Should Sex Education be kept as something to be taught at home only?
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