Like mom I have always hoped that my two children, who now attend middle school, could have the offer of paths of affective and sexual education at school.
It is too important a theme And today the boys confront each other in the online with images and videos that offer a problematic and consumer sexuality that it shows how to have sexbut in no way helps to understand The importance and beauty of a sexuality that serves to “make love”.
In my school, these projects have been blocked by Catholic parents who deemed them inadequate. In reality they were projects activated for years with a lot of success of which all families had understood the importance and usefulness.
Why do so many Catholic parents oppose this education in schools? Shouldn’t they be the first to desire this theme to be addressed and treated in an educational way also for and with their children?
Rossella
Dear RossellaYou are right. Affective and sexual education at school today is more necessary than ever.
As you write, it happens that sometimes in a school there are parents who oppose this educational offer, considering the proposal inadequate compared to the age of the child (“My baby is still small: don’t talk to him about these things”), in the methods (“They will go to teach him the gender!”) or regarding the conductors (“It belongs to an association whose principles I do not share, so I don’t want those people to talk about these things to my child”).
Almost always (of course there are exceptions) these oppositions are based on Prejudices and fears of adults.
In concrete terms, in schools where these criticisms are raised that it happens that All pupils and pupils must give up the emotional and sexual education programas happened to you too. That is, the dissent of some has turned into prohibition for everyone.
The recent was very debated the Proposal of Minister Valditara So the parents must be informed about the courses that the school intends to achieve even with external subjects in the sexual field and must provide their written consent.
I believe that the minister’s proposal is very realistic. In practice it states that The school will make emotional and sexual education with all its pupilsbut if any family wants to take responsibility for making his son abstain from this proposal, he will be able to do so.
The right in this way is guaranteed for all and all. And therefore, There can be no more excuses in order not to bring this theme into the school.
