I posted before on this assault on the innocence of children (Sex-ed: pouring petrol on the fire). I apologise for the following quotations but one of the problems with this sort of material is that nobody wants to say what is actually contained in it. The secrecy protects those who deliver the programme and puts children at risk. So in case you think I am exaggerating, here are a couple of example quotes:
From Unit 1, Programme 1 (for 5-7 year olds)
What is the difference between a boy and a girl – very little except … “there is one big difference … all girls, or females, have two special parts. They have a clitoris which feels like a small bump, it doesn’t stick out much. It can sometimes get hard and feels nice when you touch it …”.From Unit 2 Programme 2 (for 7-9 year olds)
[Boy]: “I heard some boys talking about wanking, what’s that about?”The Daily Mail article refers to several Community Schools (i.e. non-religious) where parents have complained about these materials being shown to their children.
[Teenager]: You might get told off for using that word: ‘wanking’, it’s slang, masturbation is the proper term for it. Don’t worry about it, most people do it”
[TV Doctor]: “When your penis gets hard it tingles, it makes you want to touch it and rub it. When you get older and you rub it you’ll have an orgasm. That’s masturbation, that white semen you lose in wet dreams spurts out the end of your penis. It’s a nice feeling, it does you no harm and is perfectly normal”
Incredibly, these materials have also been used in Catholic schools. The Pro-Life Times, produced by SPUC in September 2006 drew attention to the plight of Stan and Patricia Wocial who complained unsuccessfully against the use of the Channel 4 programme at the Catholic school their children attended, St William of York, Forest Hill.
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That's appalling. Who does one write to at St William of York school to complain?
It is specifically stated in The Oratory Primary that family life education is in accordance with Church Teaching. All materials are examined by Governors & The Oratory Fathers, & we as parents are asked if our year 5 & 6 children can have a brief explanation & invited in at the presentation by a very 'understanding' nurse.
Having said that a former Head-teacher (Primary School) & fabulous Pro-lifer, refused to have a school nurse on the premises.
I would prefer that approach personally.
I think it is essential that Catholic parents..get in there so to speak & find out exactly what is being taught. They are our children after all.
Those descriptions given to such young children make me sick. Let us pray for all those determined to take away our children's innocence.
Yes, they use this or a similar programme at our kids' junior school. I went to the parents evening and raised some questions (eg about the assertion that research showed that sex ed led to lower rates of pregnancy in teenagers - an assertion they could give no research reference to back up) and subsequently had a long meeting with the head who admitted some misgivings.
The whole story, and the subsequent letter I wrote explaining why I was pulling the kids out is on my blog at http://ccfather.blogspot.com/2006/12/schools-sex-ed-ok-its-time-to-get-bit.html
What's next???? Letting our 5-8 year olds have sex orgies during lunch break! The level of this disgusting abuse of our children is reaching fever pitch as IPPF, Marie Stopes and all their cohorts such as Channel 4 stir the 'sex education' couldron adding fresh ingredients of depravity at every twist and turn.
I believe that enough is enough. Any and every decent Catholic School should BAN OUTRIGHT all sex ed 'pornogrammes' from their curricullum as of immediate effect. That includes ALL the ones approved by our good Bishops in Dioceses all over the UK. One would hope that other schools with some degree of moral responsibility would follow suit.
How much more of this must we as parents endure. How did this garbage even become part of a school curriculum????
Yet another EXCELLENT example of why I homeschool! That is absolutely unacceptable. How on earth can a parent expect their child to embrace their faith and values when the people they spend the largest portion of their waking hours with say these things?
Uh oh, I feel a rant coming on...
Does anyone know if it is true that a new sex-ed programme/DVD has been produced/approved very recently by the Church for use in Catholic schools? The one I'm told about has, allegedly, been produced in collaboration with the National Family Planning Association (or a similar organisation). I'm told it contains details not too dis-similar to the stuff Fr has wisely alerted us to.
Sorry for being vague, but I'm told on reliable authority this exists, but I've not seen it. If it does exist, then our worries are only going to get worse.
In 2006 the Southwark Schools Commission issued a note on resources which stated that C4 L&G should not be used as a basis for SRE. The term "as a basis" effectively allowed those Catholic schools who wished, to carry on using it as long as they used other material as well. Does anyone know if the Schools Commission have closed this loophole?
It all makes me more and more glad my kids are at a local state school (no catholic schools within 10 miles here). At least if mine are shown this pornography I can take them aside and explain words to the effect that we are Catholics and dont go along with these ideas. If kids in a catholic school get shown it they will automatically think its in line with church teaching.
In any case I think my first reaction would be to make a formal complaint at the local police station that the school was trying to incite minors into sexual activity & follow it up with communication to the local paper and Daily Mail to the effect that I had complained and why.
When will our primary schools learn that teaching Sex Ed in the latency period (up to the age of 11) is psychologically damaging to children. Haven't they got enough on their curriculum - like the 3Rs - to not bother with subjects that are the responsibility of parents. In a research project done by the government in the 1990s it was found that parents no longer have problems discussing sex ed with their children. The way schools carry on, you would think we were rearing a generation of trainee gynaecologists.
Mark, do you mean the All That I Am programme of the Birmingham Archdiocese which is partly funded by the Teenage Pregnancy Unit? It could be worse [as indeed could virtually anything, I suppose] but personally, I wouldn't let a child of mine within a hundred miles of this 'Catholic' programme.
Mark, the programme you refer to is sponsored by the Teenage Pregnancy Unit, and is endorsed by Bishop Vincent Nicholls (among others)...
...it is also being heavily pushed for use in the Diocese of Southwark by the Diocesan Schools Commission, in both Primary and Secondary schools.
Please can I be a lone voice saying how well my children's primary school did, and secondary school is doing, in not using programmes like this. Not all Catholic schools are as bad as those described in the blogosphere.
Anonymous and Mac Mclernon - thanks for the information. I believe this is the programme I was told about. I had also been told that Archbishop Nicholls (or someone responsibile to him as RE Advisor) had somehow co-operated in the production of this programme and had indeed endorsed it for use. I didn't want to believe what I was told, given that Archbishop Nicholls is the Chairman of the Catholic Education Service and seems to be one of the more sound bishops in the Conference. He is certainly in the Press and on the TV a lot pushing the 'Catholic' side. And, for heaven's sake, Maryvale Institute is in his archdiocese - I'm told that's hardly a bastion of false teaching. So what's going on in Birmingham?
It worries me even more now if he and/or his RE Advisor are involved.
I'm not a bishop-basher, and I'm sure that these issues are complex, but I do believe that paramount here is the protection of children and Catholic truth.
Is there anything anyone can suggest we do to get this programme banned in our schools. I wonder if contacting the Congregation for Catholic Education in Rome would be the right approach, but perhaps others, more experienced in these things than I am, might be able to advise. Is an approach to Archbishop Nicholls himself appropriate or is it too late for that?
I just feel something should be done, but don't know what or how.
The English are a bit behind, I'd say.
The word you are looking for is not "incredibly" but, "of course..."
Am going to have a proper look at this 'All that i Am'. Did browse it some years back & if i remember rightly it suggested giving the menstruation talk to both boys & girls together. I know they are separate in our school...but i'm going to request all the materials they are using. On Monday that is!
Mac can you e-mail me with the problem with the programme. I mean why do they have to have it funded partially by some outside agency?
Anne: I wouldn't be so sure that the Government will not want to interfere with your children who are being home schooled. I am sure you are familiar with a DfES consultation that is supposed be taking place. You can read about it at my blog.
Heavens above! Whether or not schools are using this drivel, can we get it banned, somewhow?
You watch the bishops: they'll turn a blind eye to these dissenting schools.
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