March 3, 2008

Parental choice to end in UK schools

Sex education in school has always been a problem for parents, some don’t want teachers informing their children about the birds and bees at early ages and some feel that there is not enough being taught at school.

But in a survey of two thousand teaching staff at primary schools it has been found that over two thirds believe that sex education should be compulsory. With a quarter of the teaching staff going even further saying that for children of seven and over the teaching of sex education should be compulsory.

At the moment sex education is only compulsory for children aged between eleven and fourteen, but the government has been attacked as being some twenty years behind the times as the rate in teenage pregnancy figures show that there were 40.4 pregnancies per 1000 girls aged between fifteen and seventeen, the governments own target for 2010 is set at 23.3 per 1000.

Source [Telegraph]