This summer an independent panel of experts assembled by the Department for Education will assess the state of Relationships and Sex Education (RSE). And what a state it is.
Another lesson plan asks children to consider whether ‘virginity is made up by society’
Now compulsory for all secondary-school pupils, RSE is authorised by recklessly loose government guidance, delivered by an unregulated industry and influenced by radical gender studies academia. There are worrying cases of third-party sex education providers handing schools lesson plans on wildly age–inappropriate topics or pushing controversial ideas about gender. More worrying still, as I discovered first hand, concerned parents do not always have full access to what their children are being taught.
My pursuit for greater transparency in schools started two years ago when my 15-year-old daughter recalled being told in an RSE lesson that we live in a ‘heteronormative’ world, which was said to be a bad thing, and that she should be ‘sex positive’ in her attitude to relationships.
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