The bristle arose from a report by The New Paper that drew a link between the ministry’s key messages and its principles for teachers. It implied that teachers of the ministry’s updated sexuality education programme would not only need to be comfortable with teaching the subject and build rapport with their students, but also would need to practice abstinence from premarital sex, as prescribed in the ministry’s key messages.
At least one blogger took issue with the idea that abstinence from premarital sex is a “positive mainstream value”, while others such as mrbrown also questioned the ministry’s apparent requirement of its teachers in sexuality education to practice abstinence. Full story
