Sex education in schools
Sir,—l would rather trust a person like P. G. Ney who relies on intuitive intelligence based on experience of dealing with people, than polls or statistics. Even eight years ago I wrote that 20 years of talk about sex education had had the reverse effect to what its advocates intended. Youngsters who learn behind the bike sheds at least react to their individual consciousness of approaching maturity, but formalised classroom education ignores the range of sexual maturity even in a single age-
group, and allowing parents to withdraw their children is a bad joke, administratively, socially and psychologically. My suggestion is that parents and children have greater access to individual counselling by trained, non-teaching personnel, when and if required. — Yours, etc.,
VERNON WILKINSON August 13, 1985.
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