There is no agreement in the Chamber on teaching sexual and emotional education in schools, starting in kindergarten. As in the past, the issue is once again confusing minds, triggering protests from the opposition and disintegration of sections of the majority.
The Assembly of Montecitorio is busy examining the draft law on violence against women, which once again interferes with existing regulations by accelerating and strengthening some procedures, especially prevention. The amendment shared by all centre-left parties regarding sexual education starting from kindergarten bears the signature of the M5s. The Five Star Movement once again insists on the need to intervene in cultural change, an issue on which all political forces agree. However, what divides is the ‘tool’. For M5S and the left, sexual and emotional education needs to be provided in schools. Exactly what Northern League fans want to avoid.
Northern League member Rossano Sasso is ready to remove walls to prevent children from being “taught nonsense” at school. “We won the elections on September 25 last year and we are passing the law. You can decide with us whether you will vote or not,” he said in the Parliament. And again: “If they want, they can do it at party headquarters, and we say, ‘Let’s see if parents will send their children there,'” Sasso says. According to Sasso, there is “no doubt that the amendment in question has a derogatory content, because to consider teaching sexual education to a 6-year-old child is tantamount to humiliation”.
The words that caused the opposition to rise up led to many interventions in response. “It is unacceptable to describe a change as atrocity,” insists Green Europe spokesman Angelo Bonelli: “We cannot allow our young people to pay with their own lives for what institutions have failed to teach them.” Do you know what we should teach? Respect,” she says, “respect for women’s bodies. I don’t understand how it is possible for Minister Roccella to run away over this kind of issue. Because – she explains – today’s theme is respect, what schools should teach together with families.” M5S’s Anna Laura Orrico also spoke very harshly: “If there is one thing that is degrading in Italy, it is that in our country 89% of our children learn what sex is from YouPorn is learning. Families cannot be left alone.”
Source: Today IT
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