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Calvin Robinson speaks of his experience of liberal bias in education at Family Education Trust event

Calvin Robinson speaks of his experience of liberal bias in education at Family Education Trust event
Calvin Robinson
Piers Shepherd
20 July, 2022 2 min read

The failures of mandatory sex education and liberal bias in education were the themes of this year’s Family Education Trust conference in May.

Professor David Paton explored whether sex education mandates effectively reduce teenage pregnancies.

Citing a variety of studies, Professor Paton stated that educational interventions do not significantly delay the initiation of sexual intercourse; that educational programmes had no demonstrable effect on the prevalence of STIs; that sex education had minimal effect on reported behaviour, and no impact on conceptions or terminations by age 20.

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