Sex education – a premature start?


Facts of life: The first chapter of the Year Five Physical Education (Pendidikan Kesihatan) subject introduces pupils to the differences between the male and female reproductive organs.

PETALING JAYA: What is a good age to teach children sex education? That has become a topic of discussion among teachers and parents with a new curriculum that brings sex education to 11-year-olds.

The subject used to be taught to children when they were in Form Three, at the age of 15.

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