Principals, board members and teachers who have concerns about the RSE Guidelines and recommended classroom materials, can now feel confident in putting them in the bin.
An Official Information Act response from the Minister of Education Erica Stanford includes a statement from MOE staff stating, back in December 2023:, “Schools and kura have the flexibility to design their local curriculum, including their RSE curriculum. This means that while RSE is guided by the national curriculum, it will differ from school to school and there are no compulsory topics that must be addressed”; see – Rapid Response paper, dated 7 December 2023, from Ministry of Education.
Penny Marie of Let Kids Be Kids says, “In the absence of an announcement from the MOE to the education sector and parents, it’s vitally important that this news be communicated widely to school communities”.
Teachers commonly use MOE-endorsed resources, tailor-made to meet the RSE guidelines. One suite of resources, ‘Navigating the Journey’, developed by Sexual Wellbeing Aotearoa, has led to widespread concern, evidenced by the hundreds of people who attended our nationwide Let Kids be Kids roadshow. These resources are used in almost 50% of schools in New Zealand, and are for year one right through to year 10.
“We presented in 36 locations around New Zealand and heard many stories of despair over what is being taught to our children and how it’s harming them. These materials contain inappropriate, biologically incorrect, sexualised, and psychologically harmful information”, says Penny Marie.
“The Sexual Wellbeing Aotearoa website says that ‘rangatahi (youth) want this content’. But if a child wants to drive a car on the open road, do we let them? No, because we recognize that children are vulnerable to their own immaturity. Adults, especially parents, protect children from themselves while they are immature. We don’t let kids think they can drive a car on the open road, and they know that they can’t until they’re old enough and have learned to drive.
Key concerns within the current RSE guidelines (that teachers believe are compulsory, yet the recent OIA states are not), include:
- Children may be exposed to content of a sexual and/or ideological nature (potentially from as young as 5 years old).
- Heavy emphasis on ‘gender identity and ‘challenging gender norms’. (The ‘norms’ being challenged are… being born in the right body, and heterosexual attraction).
- Repeating messages about gender fluidity and LGBTQIA+, far disproportionate to the 4% (over 18 years old) of the population who identify in this group, and suggesting these people are woefully marginalised and harassed – however there is no evidence of this being true in New Zealand.
- Little encouragement for children to discuss these topics with parents, in fact parents are barely mentioned.
- Normalising/assuming children to be involved in a variety of sexual activity well before the age of 16, and that consenting to sexual activity before then is normal and safe. This content promotes and normalises promiscuity, leading children well under 16 to believe that consent at any age is ok.
“These materials violate our children’s psychological boundaries with content on ‘identity’ and gender ideology. These topics never used to be taught, and young people have told us that these topics made them feel uncomfortable.
“Many parents and grandparents know that these topics are out of bounds and should not be in schools. Most parents are unaware of the details being taught in ‘sex ed’ classes, and trust the education system. Until they see the content being taught many struggle to believe this is happening in New Zealand schools. However, once they see it, most are concerned, if not horrified.
“A big red flag with the current RSE lesson content being used in many schools, is the omission of parents as a recommended and preferred source of guidance about sex, sexuality and relationship education. While the materials barely mention parents, instead focusing on same-age friendships and relationships, youth-based agencies and counsellors as the child’s support network. The obvious omission of parents is troubling.
“And so, we are greatly encouraged by this information from the Minister of Education that the RSE topics proposed in the MOE Guidelines, and topics in classroom resources promoted by MOE, are not compulsory.
“The responsibility has therefore fallen on parents to inform school leaders, as most teachers mistakenly think that the MOE Guidelines are compulsory.”
Principals, teachers, parents and young people are invited to contact us for support and further information. www.letkidsbekids.nz.
Download full OIA response here.
Just pushing the creepy globalist agenda. So called sex education is all bull**** in any case. I had a pretty good idea of what went where as a teenager and took mums advice to be “careful”. No state funded nonsense required. Just good ol fashioned common sense.
The Global Paedophile Rings conmsist of Governmental and NON-Governmental Agencies and Entities, as well as NGO’s that take advantage of not only donations, grants and gifting, but also in providing pathways in which the children are disappeared into the various systems for sex-trafficking.
https://www.infowars.com/posts/investigative-journalist-set-to-expose-giant-government-kidnapping-ring-disappearance-of-children/
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/us-marshals-find-200-missing-children-across-nation-during-operation-we-will-find-you-2
Has anything like the above been accomplished in New Zealand to find the kids who were ‘Officially Kidnapped’ and the parents kept in the dark as to where their children are???
Notice how many of these ‘Missing Children / Minors’ were escaping state imposed care where they were being abused?
The below is not reported in the MSM, and may be a part of ‘Hopium Wishful Thinking News’, but given the current social and political environment on a global scale. However, IF it’s true, and the Marines have a unique mission dictate that is allowing them to carry out susch missions, then good on them!
They will be needed to clean-up the Deep State by force if needed, and to also protect President Trump in light of the USSS / FBI failures.
This has already been made known to the USMC Commandant and at the Marine JCS level.
https://realrawnews.com/2024/04/marines-rescue-11-kidnapped-children-in-kansas/
https://realrawnews.com/2024/08/marines-fight-criminal-feds-in-florida/
President Putin is cleaning up Ukraine, freeing trafficked children and arresting or killing the child traffickers. Apparently, a lot of this happens underground (literally), also adrenochrome production from children. Very nasty stuff in Ukraine. Ukraine seems to be a nexus of the “deep state” and possibly why the US and EU are giving lots of money and weapons to back up Zelensky.
RRN is an interesting site. I do believe that some of the stories are true as regards names, dates, situations. However, I think some of them are not made up but instead show the “essence” of what is going on but without giving away more for operational security reasons.
This makes sense, explains why the USA is so involved, and their current pedophile government. Need Trump in there to clean it up.
Hey Teacher leave our kids alone
We don’t need no thought control…
“We don’t need no education.”
I always thought that was funny because it’s a double negative: If they don’t need no education then it means they do need an education.
hi parents, ask you school about the sex and relationship (Health) education. There is a consultation document going out at the moment. It was hidden under ‘key dates’ on my schools newsletter. It does not give us the option to say NO to RSE, however, I added it in the comments. You as parents are allowed to request that your child NOT undertake this RSE education, and they will be supervised elsewhere.
sounds like Russia is the place to be, just saying…