Primary school headteacher quits after graphic sex education class to Year 6 pupils

Illawong Public School successful Sydney, Australia, has travel nether occurrence aft traumatised kids went location to their parents and told them astir a graphic enactment acquisition class

A superior schoolhouse headteacher has been forced to measurement down aft kids were near "distressed" by a graphic enactment acquisition class.

Parents of Year 6 students slammed Illawong Public School successful Sydney, Australia aft their children received a enactment acquisition people without their consent. Pupils assertion they were asked to constitute down questions, which were work retired and answered by a subordinate of unit successful beforehand of them connected November 7.

Shocked families complained aft their kids were "troubled" by the class, wherever immoderate of the questions were astir a pornographic website and intersexual content. In response, they were told that they had fixed their consent done different independently tally programme astatine the school.

The school reportedly acceptable up the people to sermon issues successful a harmless abstraction with children, to enactment a halt to inappropriate discussions successful the playground. One guardian told the Daily Telegraph, that they “did not springiness consent for this treatment and it was simply inappropriate.”

They said parents were near furious and added: "Parents are truly aggravated and besides aggravated astatine the responses from the school. These topics are not successful the school syllabus.” A NSW Education Department spokesperson said they expected their unit to behaviour age-appropriate education.

They confirmed an probe is underway. A spokesperson said: “We instrumentality the health, information and wellbeing of our students precise seriously. We apologise to the schoolhouse assemblage for the distress to their children.”

Miranda MP Eleni Petinos commented: "I was getting elaborate emails from parents telling maine however troubled and distressed they were to realise immoderate of their precise shy children, who person nary entree to societal media, were exposed to these types of discussions."

She added: "The astir concerning happening was portion the section reported counselling was disposable to students astatine the school, parents said it was lone offered to a prime fig of students. I americium inactive receiving emails from parents telling maine that they are not getting immoderate accusation astir their children’s wellbeing and what has happened astatine that school."

Education Minister Prue Car condemned what happened and said successful a statement: “The [staff member] has been stood aside, the activities are taxable to an probe by the Department of Education’s professional ethical standards unit. That is precise superior and I volition fto that probe instrumentality place."