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SEX EDUCATION WAR
« on: June 22, 2010, 06:00:50 AM »

by Joel dela Torre   
by Joel dela Torre   
Monday, 21 June 2010 20:03
Journal Online

AT least 30 individuals joined hands in trying to stop the Department of Education from further giving sex education to elementary pupils by bringing the issue to court.

In a class suit filed before the Quezon City Regional Trial Court, the petitioners led by pro-life couple lawyers Jo and James Imbong named Education Secretary Mona Valisno and Undersecretary Ramon Bacani as respondents.

The group asked the education officials to cease from including sex education in the school curriculum under department memorandum 261 S. 2005.

Imbong said the court should grant them a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction declaring the memorandum null and void, claiming that teaching sex education to the youngsters violates the right of parents to nurture the moral character of their children.
Besides, the teachings, according to the petition, were patterned after western models and would alter the lifestyle, behavior, attitudes and values of  Filipino children on sexuality.

“Reading the modules it was a shock to discover that they teach population control and family planning in mathematics, science, English, health education, livelihood and Araling Panlipunan among others,”  Jo Imbong said.

She cited the alleged psychological impact of these teachings on the minds of the students and its adverse effects saying early sexual intimacies, promiscuity, teen contraception, teen pregnancies and abortions were noted in the years following enforcement of sex education in schools.

On Sept. 8, 2005, the DepEd issued memorandum no. 261 series of 2005 directing the implementation of the UNFPA assisted project “Institutionalizing Adolescent Reproductive Health Through Life Skills-based Education”.

The petition said the memorandum calls for the teaching of sex education to pupils at least nine years old in grade school both in private and public schools with the program being funded and supervised by the United Nations Population Fund.

It questioned why kids as young as nine  will have to be trained about reducing fertility, preventing HIV/AIDS and other reproductive health components like family planning services, condoms, IUDs and contraceptive pills.


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