Parents versus the sex ed establishment
SIR – James Caffery’s letter (January 3) highlights a major issue – and source of considerable conflict and dismay – in schools: the incoming RSE, or Relationships and Sex Education, mandatory from September this year.
He is right to highlight the call for support from Muslim parents over the issue. He is right to bemoan the lack of public support from “our bishops and people”, but not entirely.
There are grounds for concern and indeed righteous anger, particularly concerning primary schools where there is no call from parents, schools or teachers for the teaching of LGBT issues as characterised by the No Outsiders programme that caused uproar and revolt in Birmingham schools. Also the “early adoption” of this without the statutory parental consultation cuts across the law. Sadly even Catholic dioceses such as Liverpool have succumbed to this.
