File on 4: sex education - too much too young? R4 9th May 23

[WarriorN]

File on 4 covering this area tonight.

There was a survey out a week or so ago. I'm hoping safe schools alliance may be featured 🤞

How about the BBC reflect the 'perceptions' of parents? Outside sex ed providers such as the SSE seem to see parents as the enemy and that's a massive great big clanging red flag right there.

The glaring omission was "are bad things going on and if so what can we say about that?" and instead the focus was "the wrong people are saying that bad things are going on so our focus must be to talk to the right people to be reassured and not to think about the bad things".

You can imagine a similar programme having been made about the Rotherham grooming scandal a decade or two back.

There is another thread with a link to the Parliamentary meeting about it.

I don't understand how people don't see that the come crept of somebody having a gender identity is insanely sexist.

Concept not crept

@MightyEagle "When I was at school in the 90s,the whole purpose was pregnancy prevention and std awareness. There was a lot of evidence that fairly frank sex ed before the age of 16 "worked" in those respects."

That is a really good point, MightyEagle.
Good data from studies showing that frank sex education for under 16s reduces rates of teen pregnancy and HIV transmission is being used to argue that evidence based practice is to speak frankly to under 16s about all sorts of sexual practices.

One can get the impression that the more safeguarding breaches there are, the more some are arguing that that means that safeguading must be relaxed. An example being that if some children in a cohort are exposed to extreme online pornography, then the entire cohort needs to be instructed about all kinds of sexual practices.

It doesn't take much imagination to see how that could operate as a feedback loop.