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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?

Drag QueenNot 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.

Protest

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.

 

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