Should homosexual relationships be taught in primary school (ages 5-11)

Am I the only one that thinks schools should just teach academic subjects. I went to school in Europe and we never had any sex education etc. And still the UK has the highest teen pregnancy rates

Yes. Children should be taught that homosexuality is a disgusting perversion and that homosexuality contributes to the breakdown of society.

Parents of homo kids should be encouraged to send them to therapy to help cure them.

The agenda is to indoctrinate children to accept all different types of sexuality. That may be a positive agenda but it is also one that many parents disagree with. My question is do we want to afford the state to right to undermine the intentions of those parents in the development of their children's beliefs? Bear in mind that the next agenda may be one you are opposed to.

If that's an agenda, then so is everything else. Perhaps schools have a secret agenda to accept the use of fountain pens! How dare they!? But that aside, it is not a school's job to teach conjecture. If you want to teach your children nonsense, that's on you but it's the school's job to educate children about the objective reality of the world, and that includes the existence of people with different sexualities, regardless of your baggage.

In all seriousness though, there's no good reason for children not to accept people of different sexualities any more than there'd be a reason for them not to accept people of different races. If you have a problem with that, that's your problem, not mine.

You wrongly assume that me suggesting that schools should not discuss different sexualities with children means I don't accept people of different sexualities. I accept all different sexualities and I want my children to as well. I'm just not trying to impose my views on other people's children. And if I was I shouldn't be able to use the schools system to do it.

The agenda is to indoctrinate children to accept all different types of sexuality. That may be a positive agenda but it is also one that many parents disagree with. My question is do we want to afford the state to right to undermine the intentions of those parents in the development of their children's beliefs? Bear in mind that the next agenda may be one you are opposed to.

They don't need to "indoctrinate" them to tell them it exists. Gay couples exist that is a fact so telling them what it is is not indoctrination.

Oh I see. So the intention is strictly to inform these kids that these relationships exist. What other things do we need to tell them it exists? There are countless things that exist that don't need to be discussed. By discussing it, we normalize it. Don't deny the intent.

in primary school relationships and family units are talked about taught and they are told what they are. When relationships and families of this kind exist including them would be the normal reasonable thing to do. Including all facts is just normal and what school is for deliberately choosing to exclude some is more likely to have an intent.

It is not my intention to suggest that I think homosexual relationships are wrong. I just feel that parents who do feel that way, should not have a school teacher using the curriculum to teach contrary beliefs to their children. I have trouble believing that teachers will present such material as a simple statement of existence without promoting acceptance.

I dislike having this debate because in implies that I am anti-gay, and I'm emphatically not. My objection is a purely idealistic one in terms of where I think state education's boundaries should lie. Apply the same principle of having the existence of different religions taught in primary school (ages 5-11). I would find that much more concerning.

I would suggest that schools have no need to discuss relationships and family units at all. Those issues should be addressed at home by the child's parents.