Strengthened sexual consent education is now part of the Australian curriculum for all schools, and while non-government schools have some discretion in its implementation, the head of Catholic Education Tasmania has criticised the way consent is included in the national curriculum.
Is anyone shocked Catholics wouldn’t want to teach consent.
it’s not really the concept of ‘consent’ that he has a problem with… it’s that if you teach sex ed and consent to teenagers, you might be implying it’s ‘ok’ to have sex outside of wedlock so long as those involved say ‘yes’. he probably wants a total abstinence-before-marriage, and only that, ‘sex ed’ curriculum.
it’s not really the concept of ‘consent’ that he has a problem with… it’s that if you teach sex ed and consent to teenagers, you might be implying it’s ‘ok’ to have sex outside of wedlock so long as those involved say ‘yes’. he probably wants a total abstinence-before-marriage, and only that, ‘sex ed’ curriculum.