Andrew Clow, in last week's Weekend Sun, expressed concern about extreme gender/sex education in our schools. Recently, a Korean mum told me her young boy said he'd like to be a girl because he felt the girls were favoured at school.

In years gone by, this may not be such a worrying statement, but with the increasingly radical sex education curriculum (including gender identity) being rolled out, I believe parents, for the sake of the wellbeing of their children, should exercise their right to have their children exempted from sex education classes.

From early primary to secondary school, children are being exposed to sex/gender options that are best left to parents to raise if and when they think appropriate. In fact, in these times, parents more than ever need to take the lead in their children's sexual education. If they don't, due to the ideas being put into their children's heads by our education system, television, movies, books and media, impressionable, naïve and sometimes rebellious children will no doubt experience confusion and make decisions harmful to them and heart-breaking to their parents.

David Kidd, Ohauiti.