FILE. Education for emotional, relational and sexual life: “This project must be profoundly reworked”, declare Catholic education and APEL

MESD20231108A0 Midi Libre – MICHAEL ESDOURRUBAILH

L’enseignement catholique et diverses associations de parents d’élèves, dont l'APEL, association des parents d'élèves de l'enseignement libre, réfractaires font part de leurs craintes.

Stéphane Vauquoy is the president of the Apel du Gard (association of parents of students in private education) which includes 38 schools, 16 middle schools and 10 high schools in the department. Their “line” is aligned with the opinion of the president of the national Apel, represented by Hélène Laubignat. “We believe that this draft program should recognize the primary responsibility of parents on these issues and ensure better consideration of the uniqueness of children.” The association has been offering a guide for parents since 2018. “We will continue to help parents who need a response,” says the president of Gard.

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“Serious reservations”

A press release co-signed with the Secretary General of Catholic Education Philippe Delorme, who educates 20% of primary and secondary school pupils, including 65,777 pupils and 2,727 apprentices in the five departments of the Montpellier academy, issues a warning. “We share the ambitions of the approach, particularly regarding respect for the body, privacy, the essential education in consent and the promotion of equality between girls and boys. However, reading the document leads us to formulate serious reservations.”

The reservations in question concern “the substitution of the educational responsibility of parents, we cannot accept it”, on “a lack of respect for the personality of the child”, linked according to them to the “rigidity of a program that does not allow adaptation to the maturation and singularity of each student”.

For Catholic education, the project must be “reworked”

On a subject “that touches on the intimate”, we also fear content that is permeable to certain “ideological influences”. As it stands, it is requested that the project “be profoundly reworked”.

The fight against stereotypes, which is not the “gender theory” which “does not exist in this program”, as the Minister of National Education Anne Genetet constantly reminds us, is barely addressed.

Associations such as Parents Vigilants, Syndicat la Famille, SOS Éducation are campaigning against the so-called EVARS project. Les Mamans louves denounce “serious abuses that hinder children's health”, fearing “that some adults will crudely address strictly traumatic and inappropriate sexual notions.”

In its petition addressed to the ministry, which has more than 80,000 signatories, SOS éducation begins with these words: “At 6 years old, read me stories of friendship, not transgender identity, at 7 years old, teach me synonyms, not private parts, at 8 years old, explain all emotions to me, not erections, at 9 years old, talk to me about the benefits of food, not masturbation, at 10 years old, teach me divisions, not ejaculation.” Community workers will appreciate this.

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