Well done, Nick! The voice of common sense and real experience in life who likewise understands the consequences of last Friday's crazy behaviour in the House of Commons. Other core themes to PSHE curriculum include health and well-being as well as living in the wider world (including economic wellbeing and aspects of careers education).

Perhaps Matt also believes that parents are just as capable of exercising sound judgment as to how their offspring receive adequate access to active healthy lifestyle provision when the evidence is all around us as to spiralling levels of childhood obesity.

There are many teachers who would do a terrible job at teaching PSHE, so in that sense you are not wrong! In my last school I led on the PSHE curriculum and organised it's delivery across the school. It involved a lot more than sex education, things that some parents may not know how or what to teach their own children. that's not disrespectful to parents or limiting choice, if left to parents that also may limit the choice of what their children learn. Many children don't want to talk to their parents (and vice versa) about STI's, p***. grooming etc.

So the reason I think it is should be taught in schools (for which when I led it we oftenused outside speakers who were trained in certain aspects, such as doctors and nurses, counsellors,police officers etc) and every child was given an equal and broad PSHE education.
Which for me is what is important, that young people all have an opportunity to access the same education.

I second that one....as I cannot see for the life of me why any child would want a teacher to tell him/her if she is a male or a female. No wonder so many kids think they are in the wrong bodies. It never happened 50 years ago the world has gone mad!

You really should have picked a better argument than that.

That is deeply offensive to parents, smacks of social engineering and limits parental choice.

And judging by the quality of posts on here by teachers, yourself included, convince me that teachers are better at doing this than parents. Teachers cannot appear to spell or understand the difference between the trade and budget deficit's. Why should they be trusted with sex education?

There are many teachers who would do a terrible job at teaching PSHE, so in that sense you are not wrong! In my last school I led on the PSHE curriculum and organised it's delivery across the school. It involved a lot more than sex education, things that some parents may not know how or what to teach their own children. that's not disrespectful to parents or limiting choice, if left to parents that also may limit the choice of what their children learn. Many children don't want to talk to their parents (and vice versa) about STI's, p***. grooming etc.

So the reason I think it is should be taught in schools (for which when I led it we oftenused outside speakers who were trained in certain aspects, such as doctors and nurses, counsellors,police officers etc) and every child was given an equal and broad PSHE education.
Which for me is what is important, that young people all have an opportunity to access the same education.

I second that one....as I cannot see for the life of me why any child would want a teacher to tell him/her if she is a male or a female. No wonder so many kids think they are in the wrong bodies. It never happened 50 years ago the world has gone mad!