Sex education simply can’t be forced on pupils

Ever since it was introduced in 2000, things only seem to have gotten worse, writes John.

Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga says parents can opt out of the comprehensive sexuality education programme “provided they can produce an alternative programme”.

Absolute codswallop! Parents just don’t want their children to be taught a very sensitive and private subject by unqualified outsiders, in a sex-obsessed, unsafe environment. Why must they produce an “alternative curriculum”?

Elijah Mhlanga, spokesperson and head of communications at the department, states: “There is no opting out”. A direct contradiction of the minister.

Is there or isn’t there? The usual confusion reigns. Many teachers are also opting out even under the threat of dire consequences if they refuse.

Mhlanga states: “Teachers cannot choose which work to do.” No sir, If they’re morally bound, they can, and you cannot stop them.

Ever since sex education was introduced in 2000, “100 000 teenage pregnancies are recorded in the country annually”.

Prior to 1994, teenage pregnancies were almost unheard of.

Could the “experts” give us legitimate statistical facts showing that sex education in SA has reduced unwanted pregnancies, reduces HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases and gender-based violence?

Aids is on the increase – “600 people are still infected with the Aids virus every single day, many of them young”.

In a nanny state like SA, the rights of parents are rapidly being eroded by an incompetent government, ridiculous laws and “experts” who are fanning the flames of sexual degradation and exploitation. It would be far better to teach the parents how to convey the pitfalls of sex to their children.