My daughter was 13 at the time in year 8. I wrote a letter to her school leadership giving her permission to choose not to participate in sex education if she felt uncomfortable. A few weeks later my daughter came home from school saying that her class watched a M rated movie for sex Ed. I was not given a parent consent form. The movie was called Moxie, a Netflix movie. My daughter said there was a sex scene "two 16 yr olds in a car, fogged windows, kissing and touching each other, the boy was shirtless". She said she felt uncomfortable and was covering her eyes, she also said that all the kids in her class were uncomfortable.
The teacher told the kids "don't worry about it kids, you'll be doing this soon".
The next day I went to the school to complain about this. The front office personnel told me that " teacher's can use whatever resources they want to teach the curriculum " I told them "no they can't. By law teachers much get parental consent for movies that are PG or M rated, especially that this movie was M rated and my daughter was under 15" I gave them a copy of the teacher resources guidelines from the department for education.
How did it make you feel and why?
I felt angry. This teacher not only broke the law by showing a 13 year old a M rated movie, she ignored my email to withdraw my daughter from the experience as my request, and her remark to the class was encouraging this behaviour. This teacher is nothing but a glorified groomer.
Was there any follow up with this experience?
I reported this to the school leadership and to the education ministers office.
