[Stoat]

Please also see:

Sex education could be made compulsory for five-year-olds the Daily Mail

"Panel members include representatives from the Family Planning Association, Brook Advisory Centres, HIV charity the Terrence Higgins Trust and the Sex Education Forum.

Critics warned that the review is an attempt to introduce by stealth a more explicit sex education programme for young children.

They fear the panel will rubber-stamp an official report from Government advisers in 2006 which said sex education lessons should on the curriculum in all primary schools. "

[Stoat]

Ping

[informavoracious]

Exposing younger and younger students to sex education will do nothing to solve the situation. It only piques their interest and reinforces that everything is about sex, sex, sex. What happened to Freud's "latency period"? Can't we just let little kids be little kids?

I challenge anyone to present a pregnant teen girl who doesn't know where babies come from, or how she got pregnant. The problem is not a lack of knowledge about sex but apathy and a lack of morals and proper perspective. Young single women continue to get pregnant not because they don't know about contraception, but because they are beyond caring what happens to them.

[Vanders9]

I thought that the UK government had given up on Sex Education on the grounds that the kids of today knew more than the teachers did anyway...

[Zeon Cowboy]

Hahaha, this headline.

They "could be given sex lessons." Like, they're going to teach them how to have sex! What a hilariously poor choice of words.

[markomalley]

((shakes head))

I wonder why this type of thing doesn’t even shock or surprise me anymore...

((shakes head again))

[grey_whiskers]

Like, *PING*, folks.

Jobs in UK for the naughty teachers?

[sapper1975]

John Cleese and the Pythons covered this years ago.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=uDoQFcQEpOQ