MOE Tightens Control On External Sex Education
The Education Ministry will tighten controls on sexuality education programmes run by external agencies. Materials of these agencies will now be vetted and some of it will be put online so parents know what's being taught in schools.
Eight per cent of teenagers aged 14 to 19 years old are sexually active, and less than a quarter of them are using any protection, according to a survey done by the Health Promotion Board and Education Ministry in 2006 involving some 4,000 students.
Hence it's no surprise that sexually transmitted infections among Singaporean teens are on the rise, with 787 cases reported last year, 2.5 times higher than six years ago.
Source: CNA
If you are asking what is wrong with the sex education from AWARE, it all boils down to your interpretation of sex.
Aware sex education define terms such as "anal sex," "virginity," "teenage pregnancy" and "homosexual" and ask students to associate these terms according to three categories: Positive, neutral and negative.
"Feminist mentor" and senior lawyer Thio Su Mien took issue with homosexuality being seen as a neutral, not negative, word.
Aware trainers' manual also states that anal sex can be "healthy" and that "homosexuality is perfectly normal."
Although Thio was roundly defeated in the Aware leadership battle, I think she has the last laugh. MOE has come round to her conservative views too.
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