Click to play videoHoshiarpur (Punjab): After Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh, now schoolteachers in Punjab have refused to follow the new text book released by the AIDS Control Society for sex education in schools of Punjab.
Teachers feel the 'School Adolescence Education Programme' may just give the students wrong ideas.
"Children would want to experiment after studying it," says Principal, Shri Hitkari School, Talwada, Deshraj.
Deshraj is in a dilemma, and he doesn't know how to convince his teachers to teach the subject.
"We can't teach this. How will the children react?" says a teacher Manju Sharma.
While teachers aren't happy with the content, students are hesitant to attend classes on sex education.
When asked if the students need sex education, one of the students, Bipra Sharma said, "No. What impact will it have on us?"
The AIDS Control Society, NCERT and UNESCO's joint campaign is to spread awareness on sex from a very young age. But even though the planning and awareness programme to control AIDS seems to be in place, it looks like teachers need a course to deal with the subject before it's introduced in the classrooms.
THE SEX EDUCATION SAGA |
| + The recommendation for sex education in schools came in the wake of reports showing that AIDS has reached epidemic proportions in some parts of India. |
| + Karnataka and Madhya Pradesh were the first states to turn down the idea to impart sex education in schools as part of anti-AIDS course. |
| + The Maharashtra government said the images in the book are just too graphic, which is why students in schools across the state will now not be exposed to them anymore. |
| + Karnataka Education Minister Basavaraj Horatti had said, "In today's world, we need moral education and not sex education.†|
| + Madhya Pradesh followed suit soon when Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan. Chouha banned sex education amid protests against graphics and pictorial descriptions used in the course material provided under the Adolescent Education Programme (AEP). |
| + The Dukhtaran-e-Millat, which shot into headlines after demanding mandatory burqa for women, also demanded that curtains be drawn on the J&K government's proposal to introduce sex education in schools. |
| + The AEP programme prescribed by the UNICEF in schools in Thiruvananthapuram had to be shelved in Kerala due to widespread resistance. |
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