Sexuality education needs to be age appropriate

Radio NZ reported:

The report recommended reviewing the curriculum so it was clearer about the core knowledge and skills students should learn, and increasing relationships and sexuality education in the senior secondary school when many students needed it most.

Senior secondary school is where the most focus should be, as this is when most children become sexually active.

A primary school principal said their school removed gender identity from its lessons “to appease, to calm, and to ensure that RSE continued in our school”.

I have no problems with gender identity being taught at secondary school. A case can even be made for intermediate schools, but I think it is quite inappropriate to be teaching gender identity to primary school age children.

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