SEX EDUCATION
Experiment In England • 8.30 p.m.) LONDON, Jan. 30. For the first time in educational history, more than 700 boys of a wellknown but unnamed English public school are being carefully guided through sex problems in an eight-year plan which educationists throughout Britain are watching keenly, says the "Dally Mail.” Mr T. L. Green, a Manchester schools’ inspector, said the system applies to every boy during every year of his school life, and a minimum of one week every term is devoted to sex instruction, although there is opportunity for extending the work. A school medical officer co-operating with Mr Green added that by the time they reached the fifth form, every boy should have a detailed and accurate knowledge of the first principles of sex. The boys' last years at school are under a plan taken up with social problems, such as age at marriage and parenthood, the size of a family, and should children be born in summer or winter.
Mr Green said: “Everyday life will introduce sex topics to a boy very soon, and if parents continue to fail to undertake sex education, it is wiser to let the schools ““ovide it than neglect it.” He added that parents were not eonsui-cu ociorc „iie pian was put into operation.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CLVII, Issue 23114, 31 January 1945, Page 5
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213SEX EDUCATION Timaru Herald, Volume CLVII, Issue 23114, 31 January 1945, Page 5
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