Sex education supported
Sex education and the teaching of moral values in schools were supported by most of a panel of 12 speakers who discussed the Johnson Report on education with about 120 interested persons tn the Mount Pleasant Community Centre. The panel was composed of church and school representatives. The organisers had expected only about 40 persons to attend the meeting. The audience was told that the main aim of the report was to equip parents and teachers to raise children healthy in mind and body.
Miss P. Barnes » senior teacher and health-educa-tion counsellor, said the basic need was for schools to be used not only as “factories of the three Rs but for teaching moral values as well. The Rev. Margaret Wood, curate of St Christopher's Church. Avonhead. said that if religion was taught, in al) schools it would enable children ti consider new dimensions with a minimum of peer pressure. Ail speakers emphasised that a loving and caring environment was a fundamental basis for the heal thy development of any child.
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Press, 4 November 1978, Page 22
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