UK's Schools' Policy now described as "insane"..

This week, the Labour government’s sex education bill passed in the House of Commons. It will extend sex-education into all grades in publicly funded schools and will remove the right of parents to withdraw their children from the classes when their children reach 15.

In addition, the government this week launched its new “action plan” to lower the teen pregnancy rate, which involves a set of programs including intensive one-on-one consultations on contraception for 16-year-old girls. The government has earmarked over £45 million for the new plan, despite the failure of similar programs in the past.

Last year, it was revealed that a scheme implemented as an experiment in 27 areas of England between 2004 and 2007, costing taxpayers £6 million ($9.8 million U.S.), resulted in the girls involved having more than twice as many pregnancies as those in the general population.

The Young People's Development Program (YPDP) cost £2,500 ($4,085 US) per person and involved giving teenagers individual sex education and advice about contraception. At the end of the project a total of 16 percent of those involved became pregnant compared with just 6 percent in a comparison group.

Professor Brenda Almond, Emeritus Professor of Moral and Social Philosophy at the University of Hull, wrote this week in the Daily Mail that the government’s programs will continue to fail until it is recognized that more sex-education and free contraceptives are not the solution.

Almond wrote that with the new statistics, “instead of accepting its mistake and trying a different approach, the government continues to cling to its discredited strategy of dishing out sex advice, pills and condoms.”

“They are words that could now be applied to Labour’s current sex education policy.”

Norman Wells, of the Family Education Trust, agreed, telling the Telegraph, “The government's teenage pregnancy strategy has been a disaster for young people. With all its emphasis on sex education and handing out contraceptives to schoolchildren under the age of consent, it is giving them the green light to experiment sexually.

“The expansion of confidential contraceptive services for young people under the age of 16 is making it more difficult for girls to resist the advances of their boyfriends and leading some to become sexually active when they might not otherwise have done so.”(Lifesite)

Comment:  The mandatory nature of this Education Act in Britain and the removal by government of parents' rights to withdraw their children from such classes, even in faith schools, speaks of a growing totalitarianism reminiscent of Communist states in Eastern Europe, where children belonged not to the family, but to the state. Closer to home, this idea of "children of the state" is to be found too in the proposed wording of the Childrens' Rights Amendment!