AIBU to object to Y4 teacher's "Sex and Death" comment to pupils?

[CSLewis]

Dd came home one day and told me that in Art they'd been looking at Salvador Dali, and that her teacher told them that his work "is mainly about sex and death". !

I am really angry with her comment, as not every 8/9 year old in the world knows what sex is, and I don't consider it a teacher's job to introduce them to the subject.

Also, if that's what she thinks about Dali, why on earth choose him for her Y4 class to study??!? Talk about insidious sexualisation of children from an ever-earlier age!

This is an "outstanding" Catholic primary, btw , tho I have plenty of atheist friends who wd also be appalled if their 8yo came home with that. Obv I don't think IABU, but what do u think?

With your views your child is not likely to discuss it, they will let you think that they have no interest and have never discussed it elsewhere.
I remember someone on here saying that 10 yr old boys have no interest in naked women in changing rooms and therefore should be in the female changing room and not the male changing room!

"my child's innocence was protected until her mind and body were just a little closer to puberty."

Some of the girls in that Y4 class will probably be starting their periods within the next 12 months. A few more will have started breast development and started to sprout pubic hair by then. How much closer to puberty do you want to get?