01-12-2023, 02:52 PM
It does depend on what is altered or left out but when you look at what's happened in America this is quite worrying.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibFzELEU...MM&index=9
"The lead writer of the sexuality and relationship education guidelines is alarmed the new government has agreed to remove them.
The deal comes under National's coalition deal with New Zealand First, which campaigned on removing "gender ideology" from the curriculum.
Education professor Katie Fitzpatrick said removing the sexuality and relationship guidelines for schools was a backwards step.
"I think that would be a huge mistake. It would be really against what young people want. We've had three petitions to Parliament in the last seven years from young people advocating for better relationships and sexuality education in schools."
Fitzpatrick led the team which wrote the guidelines that were introduced in 2020 by NZ First MP and associate education minister at the time Tracey Martin.
There are two documents, one for Year 1 to 8 and another for Year 9 to 13.
She said they reflected huge progress in education around consent, inclusion and shifting societal norms.
There was a strong focus on teaching young people to think critically about social media, pornography and sexual content online, she said.
"There's a lot of information and messages about relationships, sexuality, body, gender and I think schools can really help young people engage with that."
Fitzpatrick said it was unclear from the coalition documents what the guidelines would be replaced with.
But she believed removing them would send a strong signal to schools to stop teaching about sexuality and relationships.
"We need to make sure that we're not going back to some sort of regressive form of schooling which looks to repress knowledge about health and sexuality for young people."
And it isn't just in the USA. Right winger people seem deeply disturbed by the idea of people being better informed about human sexuality.
Russia bans 'gay propaganda' - possibly as a result of Putin being tucked up with the Russian orthodox church.
https://www.reuters.com/article/russia-g...R20120229/
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/press-...-killings/
The UK, apparently those opposed are not above using false information.
https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/24/s...explainer/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibFzELEU...MM&index=9
"The lead writer of the sexuality and relationship education guidelines is alarmed the new government has agreed to remove them.
The deal comes under National's coalition deal with New Zealand First, which campaigned on removing "gender ideology" from the curriculum.
Education professor Katie Fitzpatrick said removing the sexuality and relationship guidelines for schools was a backwards step.
"I think that would be a huge mistake. It would be really against what young people want. We've had three petitions to Parliament in the last seven years from young people advocating for better relationships and sexuality education in schools."
Fitzpatrick led the team which wrote the guidelines that were introduced in 2020 by NZ First MP and associate education minister at the time Tracey Martin.
There are two documents, one for Year 1 to 8 and another for Year 9 to 13.
She said they reflected huge progress in education around consent, inclusion and shifting societal norms.
There was a strong focus on teaching young people to think critically about social media, pornography and sexual content online, she said.
"There's a lot of information and messages about relationships, sexuality, body, gender and I think schools can really help young people engage with that."
Fitzpatrick said it was unclear from the coalition documents what the guidelines would be replaced with.
But she believed removing them would send a strong signal to schools to stop teaching about sexuality and relationships.
"We need to make sure that we're not going back to some sort of regressive form of schooling which looks to repress knowledge about health and sexuality for young people."
And it isn't just in the USA. Right winger people seem deeply disturbed by the idea of people being better informed about human sexuality.
Russia bans 'gay propaganda' - possibly as a result of Putin being tucked up with the Russian orthodox church.
https://www.reuters.com/article/russia-g...R20120229/
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/press-...-killings/
The UK, apparently those opposed are not above using false information.
https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/24/s...explainer/
in order to be old & wise, you must first be young & stupid. (I'm still working on that.)