Protecting The Innocence Of Our Children

By Mary Hobbs, published in The Daily Telegraph NZ

If we are to reach real peace in this world .. we shall have to begin with children; and if they will grow up in their natural innocence . . . we won’t have to pass fruitless idle resolutions, but we shall go from love to love and peace to peace, until . . . all the corners of the world are covered with that peace and love for which consciously or unconsciously the whole world is hungering. — Mahatma Gandhi

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Writer Mary Hobbs recently published a powerful piece on Daily Telegraph NZ. For those becoming aware of what’s happening in schools with the Relationships & Sexuality Education situation, Mary’s article provides a wealth of links to related information from many voices in New Zealand on this topic. Also included is an overview of global influences that must be questioned as to why they are in our children’s classrooms.

If you are wondering what YOU can do… one of the most powerful things you can do is… ask questions. And armed with information… you can ask better questions.

It’s a goodie, so grab a cuppa and dive on in…

Excerpt…

Imagine you are a 13-year-old girl, about to start high school. You may look forward to it with a sense of positive anticipation for what the future holds, combined with a little trepidation –  because you’re back to being one of the “new kids”. You’ll probably be keen to find good friends, and hope to have good teachers. High school is an exciting step and most of us remember a sea of children at a bigger school we will be attending for the next five years, so those first few weeks loom large — especially as they cement foundations for the majority of the teenage years.

Among a host of other changes, you unexpectedly find a requirement to attend classes on what is termed “Relationship and Sexuality Education” with no apparent option to opt out. Your class is “instructed” on the subject by the PE (Physical Education) teacher, who is male. It’s your first introduction to the PE teacher and it may come as a shock to discover the exact content of what you are about to be “taught” by this older man, possibly of your father’s generation, especially at a co-educational school.

The problem is that the subject termed as “Relationship and Sexuality Education” (RSE) today isn’t “sex education” as most of us understand it. Today’s baseline agenda for this topic, which truly seems to have reached new lows, seems to fit more neatly under the insidious creep of child-grooming/indoctrination. It creates feelings of outrage in many parents, grandparents, and caregivers, who — like Rodney Hide— have had the tenacity to battle their way through a maze of bureaucratic obfuscation to have eventually arrived, exhausted, at the point where they finally learned – with horror –  what is being taught. Many see it as a covertly enforced indoctrination of their children at a very sensitive time as they are embarking on the tumultuous years of puberty and experiencing rapid body changes as they grow from children to adults. Rodney’s valuable account of his experience in seeking the specific information of what his 13-year-old daughter was to be “taught” is here.

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