Posted on 04/28/2015 8:24:02 PM PDT by marshmallow
"The Telegraph" apparently finds it bothersome that Coloma Convent Girls' School presents the dark side of premarital sex and strongly encourages chaste choices
Headlines about complaints over sex education in a Catholic school. Claims that some students are “scared” by the approach used in teaching about sexually transmitted diseases. The head teacher defending what had been done and saying the aim was to meet the needs of pupils and “discuss various issues and ideas”.
Sound familiar? There has been plenty of controversy over sex education in recent years. So why did Britain's Daily Telegraph pick up this particular story?
Coloma Convent Girls' School is a popular Catholic girls' school in the London suburb of Shirley, Croydon, with a strong academic reputation, a famous choir, a string of successes in sporting and other fields, and a deep involvement in a range of charitable and community projects. It is hugely over-subscribed.
What was the problem? There really wasn't one. The school is Catholic and is teaching Catholic morals. Yet we are, it seems, supposed to find that shocking. A former pupil was quoted, to show how she too had suffered by being given a similar message at the school: "I specifically remember at one point a group was brought in for a sex education session which involved only promotion of abstinence ... There was also lots of discussion on how being promiscuous had ruined lives and that even if you had made the mistake of losing your virginity, you could 'regain' it by rejecting that lifestyle."
And apparently it was even worse than that. The group promoted—wait for this, it's truly dreadful!—prayer. No explicit sexual material and no promotion of abortion or of a lesbian or homosexual lifestyle. No detailed descriptions of sexual acts, no illustrations of intimate activity, no crude words......
(Excerpt) Read more at catholicworldreport.com ...
And what do they have to say about what the local Muslim schools are teaching about sex?
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