For the cheeldren: as usual
Here we go again… yet more attacks on children and family life. Courtesy of Ed Balls this time. He’s meant to be the Children’s Secretary.
Under the proposals, lessons in sex and relationships would begin at five, when children would label body parts and learn about simple changes to their bodies.
As per my previous post, haven’t the parents told their five year olds the simplest things? In this case, the appropriate names of their body parts? Correct me if I am wrong, but this has absolutely nothing to do with the State.
The classes would be part of the government’s new Personal Health and Social Education (PHSE) curriculum that includes teaching 14-year-olds about parenting, body image and ‘moral dilemmas’.
As Shadow Children’s Secretary Michael Gove rightly observes,
The most important thing for young people is securing the qualifications which will guarantee a good job and a bright future.
Every statistic shows that underachievement leads to risky behaviour and a greater risk of drug addiction or teenage pregnancy.
Margaret Morrissey, from campaign group Parents Outloud, said
I am struggling to think why we need parenting education as young as 14.
She added the lessons could create an interest where none existed.
And that is the whole point, which I have been making for the past few years. This government is ‘advised’ by people from the providers of abortion and contraception ‘charities’ like Brook and the FPA. Surprise, surprise: their advice has led to greater use of their ’services’.
Children aged five to seven will learn about the “simple physical changes to their bodies since birth” and the differences between boys and girls. Between seven and nine, they will be taught about puberty and “how to form and maintain relationships”. In the final two years of primary school, pupils will learn about human reproduction.
Right, so from seven, boys will learn that kissing boys and not just girls is okay.
The curriculum for 11 to 14 year-olds covers sexual orientation, contraception, pregnancy, HIV and other sexually-transmitted diseases, homosexual relationships, civil ceremonies and the importance of marriage.
I cannot believe that the homosexual stuff will wait until now. Stonewall will fight for it to be promoted as early as possible to ensure ‘equality’. (Whenever SRE (Sex and Relationship Education) is taught, civil partnerships must be discussed.)
Mr Balls believes the classes will put pupils off having children until they are ready.
Sorry, but he’s either a liar or a fool.
The Christian Institute reminds us that,
Last year a £6 million Government-backed project designed to curb teenage pregnancies saw conceptions more than double.
The project involved giving teenagers sex education and advice about contraception but at the end of the scheme there were more teenage pregnancies among the youngsters who had taken part than among a comparable group who hadn’t.
And that’s the agenda. Does anybody still believe the government cares about the cheeldren? They are screwing up their lives to have greater control over them. Just like they lie about climate change: for more control. Just like they get patsies to keep the ‘War on Terror’ going: for control.
We literally have a freak show of evil running things.
In my opinion, the State Education System is in such utter disarray and is so completely useless that most right-minded parents are refusing to leave their children in such an atmosphere of blatant political and social indoctrination and educational incompetence. Almost everyone who attends these detention centres will leave with armfuls of worthless, ‘A’ grade GCSE’s, yet still a large proportion will be functionally illiterate and innumerate (these last two inadequacies have had their names replaced with ADHD and Dyslexia), not to mention socially inept, even downright hostile, and with an entitlement attitude the size of the national debt.
Parents have resorted to the ludicrous measure of moving house to ensure attendance at a particular school for their children, or simply to avoid attendance at another, particularly bad school. Those who are affluent enough send their children to a private school do so, those that are not try to get the best state school they can and the rest have to tolerate the awful deficiencies of the local Comprehensive, through want of any other options. I believe that this last class of parents (excepting the parent(s) that are little more than children themselves and have never known anything other than State hand-outs) are rapidly approaching the point where they would rather withdraw their children from these ‘gulags’ and have them at home instead. The State Education System, in the form that we know it now, will collapse. Compulsory attendance at a school will be replaced with ‘community work’, ’skills centres’, ’sporting academies’ and other such nonsenses to try and put a fig-leaf over the last 50 years of madness.
I have withdrawn all my children from State Schools in the past and have been threatened with imprisonment and the kidnapping of my child by Social Services. They considered my insistence that they be taught that homosexuality and Islam is bad and heterosexuality and Christianity is good to be a form of ‘child abuse’. I thank God that I am not the sort to give in to these Nazi’s and that I had the wit and the wherewithal to oppose them, using their own, ridiculous laws against them.
I make absolutely no apologies for raising my children in my own image. That is the whole point of a father.
‘I make absolutely no apologies for raising my children in my own image. That is the whole point of a father.’
Nor should you, English. Whether your children continue to accept, or decide to reject your views when they are grown then that is up to them. I have two grown-up children who have rejected my, as I thought, liberal views. Turns out they wanted more authority. Surprise eh?
That might sound sad but I don’t feel that way. Not one bit. The best of luck to them is how I feel, poor unfortunates that they are.
But if my second wife and I have more, which is possible (no, no, really – I won’t need treatment on the NHS either), I too will keep them away from the state system because I don’ttrust that system to educate, rather than to homogenise and politicise. I never did. If my children are to be politicised and indoctrinated it might as well be with my politics and doctrines. They can always change their minds later.
Thank you, English, for sharing that. It shows what an evil agenda is being thrust upon us. Detention centres is a good description of modern state schools. You may be right – when the State has reduced the majority to being unable even to write a coherent note for the milkman, then there will be ’skills classes’ for them – you know, according to their abilities, whatever they might be. There probably won’t be any real jobs for them anyway, after the remaining multinationals have moved to the Third World to claim billions in carbon credits.
The irony is that the children of the typical New Labour voter seem to get the worst deal. Like turkeys voting for next Christmas already.