Opinion | Sex education? No thanks Israel today

Two of my children still enjoy the services of the Ministry of Education.

However, I forbade them to participate in political activities on the left within the school.

For example, if they are asked to participate in an activity related to the LGBT issue, they should stand up and say they should go because Dad is not feeling well.

And here is moving on the heads of our children another political activity involving coercion.

From the next school year, sex education will be taught as a compulsory subject from the first grade, and since at this age the children can not just get up and leave the classroom as Dad said - the problem is even more serious.

What would a worried parent like me do when the school wanted to teach first graders a Soviet-named "Joy of Growing Up" lesson, or instruct my 7-year-old daughter how to "deal with temptation"?

The idea that my young children will have to be required for issues that are delicate and sensitive even for older people shocks me.

I definitely recognize a danger.

Not a danger of "appropriate and inappropriate touches" at age 7, but a danger to the psyche of children from within the system itself.

The two salient features of this twisted venture are impudence and lightness.

The impudence with which state officials allow themselves to get close to our children who only yesterday completed compulsory kindergarten and have a set of sexual content in their hands.

In a reformed world these people had to be arrested on the spot and taken to the police station.

The second aspect of the same phenomenon is the ease with which we, the parents, shake off the responsibility for the education of the children and transfer it to the state.

We leave the most sensitive and delicate matters in the hands of people we do not know and who serve a system that proves itself every day to be mediocre and one that produces an inferior product.

Am I asking the school to teach my children something beyond studying math and English?

Good question.

Over the years, this "something" has deepened the memory of the Holocaust, the history of Zionism and the love of the land.

When the moral failure known as "the other is me" entered the education system, I became suspicious.

Over the years, the Ministry of Education has continued along this line and passed on to my children a variety of foreign and strange messages that have nothing in common with the Jewish and national worlds.

If the latest initiative does reflect the added value that the child acquires in school, then it is my duty as a parent to say “thank you, but no.” If that is the case, learn only the compulsory subjects, and from then on leave the child alone.

When the right time comes, at any age you reach, my child will learn about sexuality naturally, spontaneously;

Be it an excited get-together with her big sister or a nightly conversation in the kitchen with exercise.

In any case, the sexual education of my children is not a matter for the teacher or even for the state.

In our home the sex is a gift from God and does not revolve around fear, danger and harassment.

The first lesson in my children's sex education is "what is hated of you do not do to your friend."

If this message is understood correctly - everything else will come by itself, with and even without the Ministry of Education.

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