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TriciaF Wed 09-Sept-15 14:29:34

I'm so grateful that our children have grown up without all that . But I don't envy them trying to bring up their own children, some of whom are in their teens now.
They do try to control the amount of time they spend on the 'net.

soontobe Wed 09-Sept-15 11:47:06

One of my daughters[mid 20s] sometimes teaches in a secondary[non faith] school.
She ends up taking a lot of the moral//dilemma lessons whatever they are called, because the older teachers shy away.

It is difficult really.
A lot of the older teachers feel that they are way out of the loop.

I think just about all of them are.

TerriBull Wed 09-Sept-15 08:51:16

I share your concerns absent, my teen years were 1960s and early '70s and as you say it was the era of "sex, drugs and rock and roll", but nevertheless I think most of us emerged unscathed from that time.

A few days ago an alarming statistic was produced regarding the number of sexual assaults, including rape, that had taken place in schools, some had actually happened at junior level. I think the consensus was that pornography was a driving factor behind this. It's all pretty depressing, but what can be done about the amount of very "hard core" pornography that, young boys in particular, are accessing because it certainly seems to be warping their minds. I do think there needs to be a lot of discussion in schools about consent/coercion and seemingly at quite a young age too.

absent Wed 09-Sept-15 07:59:28

Someone recently posted – possibly on the drunken consent/rape thread that internet pornography is "more difficult" to access these days. I admit that I have never tried to access pornography, although I have inadvertently, once or twice, found myself on websites where I had never intended to go. I also understand that what is termed hard porn – and certainly the really nasty, illegal stuff involving children, for instance – has to be paid for.

I just wanted to say that about a year, maybe 18 months ago, I read an article by a secondary school teacher who handled social studies which included discussing sexual, among other relationships. He asked his class to list all the terms used for any kind of sexual activity and was shocked to discover that his adolescent class knew more words/terms than he did.

I am a child of the sixties – sex and drugs and rock and roll – and a broad-minded grandmother, but was particularly sickened by nugget – which apparently, pretty much the whole class recognised but not the teacher.

I am not happy about censorship, although obviously concerned about the protection of children.

What I am saying is WHERE THE HELL DO WE GO WITH THIS?