A petition asking the Government to allow parents to opt their child out of the new Relationship and Sex Education (RSE) curriculum needed around 20,000 more signatures to be considered for parliamentary debate on the topic as en went to press.
The petition, which takes about 30 seconds to fill in, states: ‘We believe it is the parent’s fundamental right to teach their child RSE topics or to at least decide who teaches them and when and how they are taught. We want the right to opt our children out of RSE when it becomes mandatory in September 2020.’
Current proposals will allow parents to remove their child from sex education, which will be primarily on biology, but not allow any child to be removed from lessons which will teach positively about homosexuality, transgenderism and sex outside of marriage.
