Shocking classroom action rocks Illawong Public School as students receive counseling and an apology is issued to parents

Parents threaten to withdraw their children from school and students are offered counseling after a sex question and answer by an older teacher was said to have become ‘too explicit’.

The furor over the incident involving students from Illawong Public School in Sydney’s south has even reached the ears of an elected MP.

Parents have been told that on November 7, Year 6 students were asked by the female teacher to write questions about sex on a piece of paper.

The teacher then read out the questions and reportedly gave explicit answers, including about a pornographic website that was the subject of one question.

After concerns about the session were raised in a parent chat group, the teacher involved received an email asking for an explanation.

The teacher said she decided to organize the class after the school contracted sex educators Amazing Me to deliver sessions previously.

On its website, Amazing Me states that it has ‘specialized in providing positive and stimulating daytime and evening sex education programs in primary schools for over 25 years’.

“Each program is carefully tailored to the needs and ethos of your school community, is curriculum-based and reinforces the message that we are all amazing and unique,” ​​the website says.

Parents of students attending Illawong Public School in Sydney’s far south-west are outraged after an allegedly explicit sex Q&A

The teacher said that while the education offered by Amazing Me was age appropriate, it led to a lot of inappropriate playground talk, which she tried to address by ‘safe space’ for students to satisfy their curiosity.

However, this met with indignant reactions from some parents Daily Telegraph reported.

“We did not consent to this discussion and it was simply inappropriate,” one parent said.

‘Parents are really angry and also angry at the school’s reactions. These topics are not in the school’s curriculum.’

MP for the local seat of Miranda Eleni Petinos said she “audibly gasped” when she read the parents’ comments about the “sophisticated and explicit sexual content” they ventured during the session.

“One concerned parent wrote that the person’s “actions have increased her child’s sexual knowledge far beyond that of a 12-year-old child,” she said.

Year 6 students have been given counseling, while the NSW Department of Education has apologized for the incident.

“We take the health, safety and well-being of our students very seriously,” a department spokeswoman said.

‘Following complaints from parents of Year 6 students at Illawong Public School, (staff member) has been directed to take on other duties in the department, outside of any school, while a thorough investigation into this matter takes place .

‘We expect all our employees to provide appropriate education that is in line with the syllabus, but in this case that did not happen.

‘We apologize to the school community for the distress their children have suffered.’

Daily Mail Australia contacted Illawong Public School for comment.