Sex Education OK Now!!

 By: ryan    3:26 PM  Worth A Read   No comments

A week back, teachers are not prepared and have no confident on educating and teaching the subjects about sex to our youngster. But after a sudden conference being held, pop, all the teachers are ready for it.

According to theStar:
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In an about-turn, teachers are now prepared to teach sex education in schools — but educationists want proper training first.

This was a drastic change from a stand taken on March 2 when the National Union of the Teaching Profession was against such an education.

NUTP had then said that teachers lacked formal training “in the complexity and sensitivity of the subject and were not confident to teach it”. Its secretary-general Lok Yim Pheng said the new decision was reached at a recent three-day delegates conference held here.

She added that teachers believed sex education should begin at early secondary education; and the educationists should be given comprehensive training first. “The ministry needs to come up with proper modules and programmes to allow us to impart this to students effectively,” she said.
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Actually everyone ismore than prepared for the sex education. I mean every teacher is adult. Which adult doesn't  know about it what sex is? Don't tell me Malaysian teacher are so naive. No offend but it is just so true. Just the matter of are they given enough permission to teach this "sensitive subject" or not (you know la, a little bit complaint, the religious dept, school Parent's Association (PIBG), Ministry of Education (MOE) and some conservative jerk will made it into news headlines, so who wanna teach, what are the suitable materials or references, where to teach and how the materials are going to guide or aid the teaching.

It's funny enough that once the conference being held, and this lady who was representing the whole country saying teachers can already teaches the subject...funny eh? This signaled the permission is given.

Sex is just a normal and ordinary subject to be frank. If you ask a primary student, "What is sex?" Some will says "Sex is gender", while some may be shy, some may says "Yeeee we cannot talk about this, shame shame errr", while some will even ask back to you "What is that? Game ah? Something can eat?". So you can see, sex in their pure mind is a "thing" to them, it is something within a boundary, it will not expands or can be elaborate more into as what adults think of. So why make it such a fuss that it's is difficult to deal la, sex is a taboo subject la, our teacher's have no experience la ( you bet it) and we are not expert in this field (ya right) and we have not enough resources and the list goes on....

Even more funny was:
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“But some headmasters are forcing teachers to come back every Saturday. This is absurd,” she said, adding that if this continued, the NUTP would direct its members to stick to a five-day work-week. Lok said the ministry should also stop compelling teachers from attending the annual seven-day in-service training as well.
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How can this made into compulsory and to being taught like curriculum classes on Saturday? What the teacher gonna do then for the 6 hours classes? Explain to them what is Kama Sutra? Sex is not a subject where a text book can be laid out to explain what sex is all about. It's more to be explains as in one-to-one session more than in theory with whole bunch of students in a class.

Since we have Sciences subject and Pendidikan Jasmani dan Kesihatan (extra-curriculum) being taught in the schools, why not the MOE team-ups with various local or international organizations which are experts in providing safe sex guidance, products and training to incorporate in the existing compulsory subjects textbook?

To be fair, to teaches sex educations in school is a good move, but the teachers are not the only one that bear the responsibilities, but, the parents are. Teachers in school are suppose to only provide knowledge from the books. Parents are the one should provide knowledge such as to their child's personal development, emotion, personal lifestyle and relations matters. As I said, sex educations are more suitable to be held in between parent or their close-one. For example, the father may educates their boys else the mother on their girls. If the parents are suitable to talk on either they are boy or girl, it will be even more better. Who are most suitable to spend more time for their children non other than the parents themselves?  

In Japanese's culture, bathing together with their child is also a good way to enable interactions between the child and the parents. Questions will always be asked if children has curiosity when they saw and experiences differences between them and others. Some may not encourage this culture, but there is always an alternative. I am just giving an example. So excuses such as the parent have not enough time, not suppose for them to touch and discuss the child personal development, parent are not child best friends, which all of these are nonsense. Then what for you bring the child to this world when all the responsible being throws to others? Parent them self are the most suitable good role model went talk about to providing guidance, advices, sex educations and personal development to the child actually.