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I would even argue that teaching older kids about physiology with regard to their own bodies should be the preserve of parents. I don't want the schools, and by extension the government, anywhere near it.
The purview of formal education should be strictly limited to academic subjects. Not only should "sex ed" not be a thing, but neither should nutrition, dietary instruction or any kind of lifestyle advice. All of this nonsense wormed its way into the curriculum because teachers and school administrators gradually got the notion into their heads that they could be better at parenting than the actual parents. This is an idea that needs to be burned out of the school system with fire.
Yep, I think that's it.
Schools are failing to teach science, math, language, history, music, and everything else they've actually been tasked with.
Why should we assume they are in any way able to impart life lessons?
You can claim this online all day, but in real life reality is everyone has an anti-incest aversion to discussing sexual topics with their own children.
I guess you could argue the more kids the better, but everyone is uncomfortable talking about sex with their parents.
You probably have a point, although I would argue that kids should be just as uncomfortable talking about sex with any adult, and that discomfort probably exists for good evolutionary reasons.
Parents should still be the ones who decide when these conversations are appropriate, and how they should take place.
Even if you argue that the idea of "sex ed" in schools for adolescents is in principle a good idea, and I can see where you're coming from, in practice we know that if you give these institutions an inch, they'll take a mile.
The most practical solution as far as I can see is to just implement a zero-tolerance policy on teachers talking about sex to their students.