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Parents divided over booklet used for sexuality education

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The parents of a Grade 6 learner at a Cape Town school are fuming after discovering a booklet containing scripted lesson plans about sexuality education in life skills.

The parents, who spoke on the basis of anonymity out of fear that their daughter might be victimised, said they came across the book while covering textbooks to be used for the schooling year.

The 11-year-old’s father says it’s not the lesson about puberty that made him see red, but rather the aggressive explanations of certain terms in the book and

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