OFSTED worried about sexualised children

OFSTED are worried at increasing numbers of primary school pupils showing sexualised behaviour.

What a surprise, I don't think! The government has been foisting ever increasing amounts of sex education on children, they recently announced that sex education should be compulsory for all children from the age of 5.

Can't these people understand? Are they so isolated from reality in their ivory towers that they don't realise that if you push sex at children then you will arouse curiousity and of course the children will want to experiment.

Children will mature and develop awareness about sex at different ages and over a long period of time. Like most things, sex education is best driven by the child and not pushed at them by teachers following a standard curriculum regardless of the child's maturity or preparedness for the lessons being pushed at them.

The state should stay out of the minutia of children's education and let teachers get on with what they've been trained to do - teach children according to the skills they have been given as teaxchers and according to their knowledge of what their pupils are ready to learn instead of treating education like a factory line which can be standardised and automated according to some grand plan.


http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2009/jun/23/sexualised-pupils-primary-schools-ofsted
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/minette_marrin/article4795056.ece
http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2009/apr/27/sex-education-contraception-schools