Sex education in schools
Sir, — It has been obvious ever since publication of the 1973 Ross Report that the Education Department has, for better or worse, thrown in its lot with the Swedish pattern of “health” education. The 1977 Johnson Report confirmed that decision, then last year the Govern-ment-funded Family Planning Association published a classroom programme based on the Swedish pattern. Now we have a bill which will make the change complete. There is now the prospect of an even more bitter tug-of-war between parents and educators, and wider division than ever between home and school, with children lost in between. The department has, in our view, forfeited parents’ trust. However, we see a solution to the otherwise insoluble problem in Dunstan High School’s experiment — its own parent-approved takehome booklets for pupils — and we hope all other communities will follow Alexandra’s suit. — Yours, etc.,
D. ELLIOT-HOGG, National secretary, Community Organisation for Moral Education. June 18, 1985.
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