28 July - Education, but not as we know it
I went to a boys only school. In the whole of the time I was there we had
just one sex education lesson and all I remember about it is that the face of
Rodney Farrow sitting opposite me went bright red and stayed that way. Most of
us left school not really knowing what a girl was and I stepped straight into an
office job shared with three young women who were probably about five years
older than me. Valerie, Veronica and Vera and those five years made them so much
more sophisticated than a 17 year old schoolboy who didn’t know how to react to their teasing.
Another thing I never knew was the word homosexual although I later realised
that the music teacher must have been one. Obviously the old days left something to be
desired in terms of a wider education.
How different things are now but have they gone too far in the opposite direction?
Not
having a TV licence my viewing includes quite a lot of YouTube videos. There are
hundreds which are nothing but a camera ‘walking’ through city streets. They are
strangely addictive and streets I used to walk along in the early evening almost
alone are now full of people drinking outside pubs even around midnight.
While I would have been in my office suit today anything goes. Last month the camera
briefly caught a Pride event in which one man was wearing nothing but a single
strategically placed sock while children stared and police in rainbow coloured
cars were as unusual not pursuing burglars and bicycle thieves.
I have no idea why such things have to be paraded in public. It was wrong that
Hampshire Education Authority did not provide sex education for
teenagers in the 1950s, if it had done I can think of life events that may have
taken a different course. Whether it is appropriate for four year olds is for individual parents to decide but
Bexley
Council has decided they should get into the scene that has provoked protests elsewhere.
I hope taxpayers are not having to foot the bill for this ‘education’ and Bexley
Council can explain how Story Hour is improved by the reader being a bloke in a frock.
Bexley is employing the same bloke in a frock who has provoked protests in
various other towns. He must be laughing all the way to his bank. And you are paying.
Daily Telegraph report.
Maybe it has something to do with Bexley libraries being run by someone we know to have a vivid sexual imagination and was arrested for it.