Primary school children aged just four are being taught about surrogacy when they learn where babies come from for the first time. Reception classes are told that children can have a ‘tummy mummy’ as well as a ‘mummy and/or daddy who will be their parents’ when learning about the basics of reproduction.
They are four. At four, most children have a hard time learning more important concepts, like not sticking everything they are offered up their nose!
Among ‘key vocabulary’ four and five-year-olds must learn are ‘surrogacy’ and ‘donated sperm or eggs’ in a module titled: ‘Where do babies come from?’
That seems a bit harsh, until you remember that one four year old in class who could pronounce all those dinosaur names correctly. And that had more value to their future life than this nonsense!
Parents and campaigners say it is ‘highly inappropriate’ to teach these topics to such young children, saying it is only likely to confuse them. They add that the concepts should be introduced only to much older children ‘as part of lessons on thorny ethical issues such as euthanasia and abortion’.
Ball's in your court, parents - take an interest in what's being taught and pull your children from school if you find it's something you don't agree with.
Helen Gibson, founder of Surrogacy Concern, said she is ‘appalled’ to see surrogacy being taught to such young children and has written to the Department for Education (DfE) to raise concerns.
A letter they will throw straight in the bin.
The DfE said the teaching material was developed by a private relationships, sex and health education (RSHE) provider and is not compulsory in all primary schools, adding: ‘The RSHE guidance is clear that where schools choose to do so they must make sure they teach age-appropriate topics.’
A very modern response - 'it's not our fault, big boys did it and ran away'.
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If you have to teach people abut pregnancy by using the word 'tummy', they're clearly not old enough
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