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Kyle Brewerton: Auckland Primary Principles' Association on the proposed new sex education curriculum · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: Now a new sex education curriculums being put out for
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  Speaker 1: consultation by the government. Children from year four will learn
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  Speaker 1: about consent, gender stereotypes and inclusion, while high school aged
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  Speaker 1: kids will learn about sexual violence and menstrual cycles and STIs.
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  Speaker 1: Carl Bruton's a president at Auckland Primary Principals Association with
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  Speaker 1: me this morning. Carl, Good morning, Good morning, Ryan. Good
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  Speaker 1: to have you on. So anything out of the ordinary
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  Speaker 1: in this.
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  Speaker 2: To be honest, I haven't had a look at the
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  Speaker 2: actual content of the proposed curriculum detail, but based on
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  Speaker 2: what you're saying, that's largely why we're doing a consultation
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  Speaker 2: because where some of those things are pitched doesn't quite
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  Speaker 2: sit with what we would expect in terms of age
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  Speaker 2: and stage of our little people.
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  Speaker 1: What's inappropriate at what age do you think, Well.
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  Speaker 2: If you flip it a little, at the pivotal change
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  Speaker 2: is really the focus, particularly for those primary years, because
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  Speaker 2: we've seen particularly things like periods are happening earlier and earlier.
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  Speaker 2: We were see that that would be more beneficial to
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  Speaker 2: be talking about mestrual cycles in those younger years and
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  Speaker 2: just being quite upfront about that and including the boys
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  Speaker 2: in those conversations as well, So it just eliminates all
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  Speaker 2: the all the giggling and carrying on, and it just
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  Speaker 2: makes it some of normalizes it a lot more at
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  Speaker 2: those early years when you're starting to talk about things
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  Speaker 2: like consent and if you even were going to entertain
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  Speaker 2: things like sexual violence might have you. That's certainly something
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  Speaker 2: for those older years. You wouldn't expect the year five
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  Speaker 2: student to be having those conversations.
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  Speaker 1: What about the big, the controversial elephant in the room
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  Speaker 1: that you know, kicks of the protests off and all
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  Speaker 1: that stuff, is the gender and the puberty blockers. Is
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  Speaker 1: that a primary school conversation?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you're right, it is the contentious one. We don't know,
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  Speaker 2: and that's that's the trouble. We are just teachers, right,
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  Speaker 2: we're educators. We're not really sure in terms of psychologically,
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  Speaker 2: in the psychology behind things like gender identity, where it
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  Speaker 2: does best fit and is it something that a school
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  Speaker 2: teacher should be trying to teach and grapple with. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: certainly go down the road of being respectful and inclusive.
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  Speaker 2: And people are all prone and titled to their opinions
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  Speaker 2: and views, and we should support anyone who thinks whatever
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  Speaker 2: they think, and we just should be good to eat
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  Speaker 2: one another. We don't sort of get into the detail,
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  Speaker 2: but so it does beg the question is there's something
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  Speaker 2: for schools to grapple with and that's why again this
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  Speaker 2: is this consultation should hopefully bring some clarity.
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  Speaker 1: Good point, Kyle, Appreciate your time, Kyle, Briton, Auckland Primary
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  Speaker 1: Principles Association President. For more from Early Edition with Ryan Bridge,
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