Sex education - Case for overhauling subject

TWELVE years after RSE — Relationships and Sexuality Education — was introduced in Irish schools, parents will be dismayed to discover that many youngsters today are not being taught about sex at all.

If ever there was a compelling case for radically overhauling sex education in the classroom, it is graphically etched in the pages of a report showing how it is being neglected at senior level in secondary schools.

Given the public’s justifiable anxiety over the dangers facing vulnerable young people from predatory paedophiles, it is disturbing that boys attending single-sex schools receive little or no sex education.