A mother in the UK has spoken out about her disgust after her 11-year-old child was given homework as part of their Personal, Social and Health Education (PSHE) class which asked them to define adult terms such as “hardcore pornography”.
The child received the homework from their school, Archbishop Sentamu Academy in Hull, which did not inform parents before setting the course work which is part of a broader curriculum for sex education for UK school children aged 11 to 14.
The children were also asked to define soft homosexuality, transsexual pornography, as well as female genital mutilation, wet dreams, trafficking, male circumcision, breast ironing and more
The mother, who is identified by the UK Daily Mail only by her surname Mrs Taylor, said that she only became aware of the homework after seeing a Facebook post about it by another outraged parent regarding the course work.
Mrs Taylor told the Daily Mail:
“My daughter is still very much a child, we’ve still got magic elves, her bedroom is done in My Little Pony. She is very innocent and naive.
She was only in primary school last year living her best life, now she is being asked to search for hardcore pornography.
She’s 11, she should be doing stranger danger, and don’t share your info online, but genital mutilation is another thing. It was asking about male circumcision, breast ironing…I don’t even know what that is myself.”
The push for more “progressive”, explicit and adult content in young children’s education is not just a UK phenomenon, last year there was widespread opposition to a new sex education curriculum being introduced in Ireland which would see young children taught about subjects such as masturbation, pornography, homosexuality and transgenderism.
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