'We won’t teach sex lessons to kids', teachers say
Johannesburg - Some teachers are refusing to teach sex education classes because they say it involves educating children as young as 10 about such sexually explicit topics as masturbation and male and female private parts.
Scores of teachers have insisted that they don’t feel comfortable teaching this apparently highly sexual content, which forms part of the Department of Education’s Comprehensive Sexuality Education curriculum prescribed for pupils between Grade 4 and matric. Many told The Saturday Star they will refuse to teach these classes even as the department insists they have no choice in the matter.
A high school English teacher who teaches life orientation said she is not qualified to teach CSE and is not comfortable doing so with her teenage high school pupils, let alone adolescents in primary school. “As a parent of a 17-year-old, I feel uncomfortable knowing that he knows in detail what mummy and daddy do behind closed doors. How much more embarrassing will this be for others who have smaller kids?” said the teacher, who wished to remain anonymous.
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