Absolutely not. My son, without my knowledge, was taught sex education in primary school (he would have been about 7 at the time). When I picked him up from school, he didn't want me to kiss him. Wouldn't hold my hand crossing the road. When we got home and I offered to make him a sandwich, he refused and neither did he want a drink. He was also looking at me very oddly. I asked his sister did she know if anything was wrong - she said she didn't but would speak to him (he shied away when I went near him).

My daughter (who was about 12) did speak to him and he told her about the class at school and what he'd been told and shown. He then said he couldn't believe that 'mom had done anything like that and I'm not eating anything she touches and I'm not ever kissing her ever again either - it's all disgusting'.

I flew into that school the next day and left them with no mistaking how I felt about them conducting that class without consulting parents first - I could have predicted my son's reaction (my daugher would have been fine about it all), his mental maturity just wasn't up to handling the information he'd been given and putting it into an adult context.

I completely disagree... A 3 year old is NOT too young to be told that genital touching by anyone is NOT normal or appropriate and that the child should report it immediately to an adult.. Kids that age are capable of sexual pleasure... and are too young to understand the mind games a manipulative molester can play. I think this is what is meant about age appropriate.. NO ONE is saying that they should be given a crash course in sex.

I think it's important that the parents look at the curriculum being planned for each grade level, and have the chance to discuss it with the teachers and the school administration. Here the parents are given an opt out choice.. I don't understand that, but some parents do not want their kids to be told anything.. I think these are the kids that will get bad info from friends and the internet and do some experimenting on their own.

I wonder if we renamed it and took the word sex out of the title of people would see it differently as it seems just saying sex makes some people think it has to be graphic and teaching about sexual practices. When that is far from what we are actually talking about.

I think it's important that the parents look at the curriculum being planned for each grade level, and have the chance to discuss it with the teachers and the school administration. Here the parents are given an opt out choice.. I don't understand that, but some parents do not want their kids to be told anything.. I think these are the kids that will get bad info from friends and the internet and do some experimenting on their own.