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Wednesday, March 21, 2007

SEX EDUCATION IN SCHOOLS

HRD Ministry of Government of India is enforcing Sex Education in schools (2006-07) to children studying in Std V to X! It is totally uncalled for. Rightly, the Madhya Pradesh government has stopped sex education after it found that the illustrations manual for the teachers were obscene and objectionable. Why force so much knowledge about sex into the young mind of say 10 year olds? It is time that teachers and parents resort to Gandhigiri to resists this unnecessary “education”. Senior citizens need to take up this issue strongly with the concerned. We all learnt by ourselves.

We all know that children are already exposed to lot of sex related information through various media. Instead of teaching sex education, the government should seriously see why so many young students are not doing well in maths (as reported in the media) and what can be done to increase children’s interest in maths rather than in topics like Birth Control Methods to 10 year old children. Children in Std V are too small to learn the syllabus specified for sex education.

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