In a pdf file which is available on its website, Aware (under the new executive committee) lists its concerns about the Comprehensive Sex Education (CSE) programme which is taught in schools.
We invite readers to share their views.
Below are three extracts from the file.
You can view the file in full here.
Read also: MOE probes sexuality subject.
hey john lee, then pull your kids out of school, or choose to opt out of the CSE, YOU CAN.
your values are DEPLORABLE TO ME as well. as can be seen by the earlier letter i posted in topic 88, not all parents think like you. they prefer their kids know about the real world. gays are born, not made. unless you yourself think you can have your sexuality somehow converted through a CSE lesson. give your kids some credit, they are probably smarter than you.
loupgarou,
Why did AWARE not let the parents know beforehand that they are telling their kids that pre-marital sex, homosexuality and anal sex can be, as they put it, ‘neutral’?
Thanks for the advice, my sons and my friends’ chidren will not attend any talks given by AWARE.
its your subjective morality that says its “bad”, an atheist would treat those as amoral. ie: factually neutral.
anal sex between two consensual loving hetrosexual couples is just part and parcel of normal sex. you can go search amazon for it.
likewise, gays are entitled to their own private life (accordingly to wks), so what they do behind closed doors are their own business.
pre marital sex, given that adults in singapore are trending towards marriage at 30 and above, are you being ridiculous? are you saying someone at age 21 who can die for his country cannot and should not have sex?
homosexuality exists. everywhere. if you’re not homosexual in the first place, you’re not even going to be turned on by hard core gay porn. so why would you be concerned? that you rather not find out your son is gay and let him lie to you till your death bed? that he cheats an innocent girl into a false loveless marriage to sire you a grandchild?
you can read this link on topic 125 where I posted a whole bunch of mainstream scientific journals listing just the tip of the iceberg on the possible genetic origins of homosexuality.
http://theonlinecitizen.com/2009/05/the-suspension-of-reason/
remember, if you think your child can be influenced into becoming a homosexual, that means YOU THINK YOU YOURSELF CAN BE INFLUENCED.
dear loupgarou, you can teach you child that he or she can engage in pre-marital sex, that is your prerogative.
Likewise, it is MY pregorative to teach my sons to treasure sexual activity as a celebration of love between a man and woman.
It is NOT AWARE’s right to teach young girls it is ok to engage in pre-marital sex, anal sex and homosexuality WITHOUT telling the parents.
If you think that it is so important to tell your children that it is ok to engage in pre-marital sex and to love people of the same sex, won’t you feel angry if I tell your children that is better to treasure sex as to be practised only between a married man and woman, without telling you?
why is it not right”? like i said, the terms are neutral, its only you that see it as negative.
morality IS relative.
is your wife following 6 steps behind you and wearing a burqa? in some ASIAN countries, that would make her IMMORAL . do you drink alchohol? that is immoral in other ASIAN countries.
I have a hypothesis…
Just wondering, if your children can be so easily influenced to become gay by a less than 1 min talk on “homosexuality being neutral” then i think your children are not very bright afterall, apart from the fact that they cannot tell apart the meaning of “neutral” , “positive” and “negative” most certainly.
Wah..their physics results will be a nightmare if they cannot tell the positive electrode from negative electrode and grounding (or the earth point, which incidentally, means neutral).
Therefore my hypothesis is … Instead of lobbying to throw the CSE course out of the window, spending more time tutoring your kids to score well in O/A/University exams will be more constructive than worrying about them becoming gay yeah?
You will have more bragging rights among your friends at least if your kids perform well in exams.
As for pre-marital sex and abortion issues, none of my friends who are parents actually proactively teach their kids that pre-marital sex is “neutral” and in fact they very clearly explained and nagged everyday that pre-marital sex is not acceptable.
Taking that in consideration, it may shocked U that many parents friends of mine during our gathering, complained that their kids have so many bfs/gfs and some even suspect their kids had abortions! Which also left my parenting friends scratching their heads….how come their kids know which clinic offering such services when they themselves don’t know and excluded it from their parenting all this while?
Don’t you think that controversial information (which are factual and relevant to our society currently) imparted by teachers to the kids are better than the kids digging unregulated information online or from their friends?
p/s: i’m not a parent yet. :)
There are values within the teaching material that AWARE knows would be repugnant to the parents of the 13 year old kids that AWARE has conducted the workshops to.
The learned women of AWARE MUST know that pre-marital sex, homosexuality and anal sex are deplorable to these parents.
They did not tell the parents beforehand that they would be teaching these so-called values to the children.
I have drawn my conclusion from this. So have thousands of enraged parents.
hi Nobody,
can i volunteer as a “lab rat” for that influence test? :P
if homosexuals are taught is there a program to uninstall (the program)? i am keen to experience a life not attracted to both genders.
Well, today’s sunday times stated in an article that AWARE never gave their material for their so-called ‘comprehensive sex education’ to the ministry of education for vetting. Something to hide? Anyway they are kicked out now, and good riddance.
Haha, AWARE did not submit their sex education materials at all, guess they know that no parents want their children to think that pre-marital sex is ‘neutral’.