(p)upils as young as seven are being encouraged to act out being drunk at a wedding while 10-year-olds pretend to take ecstasy....The main teachers' resource is an NHS approved text, Drugs Centre stage (the only live official link I could find is a cached Google page). According to the DT, in one role play the children,
act out the death of a drug user. "I think Gary's ODed. He's not moved for a week and he's starting to smell," says the script.Gary and the script have something in common: they both stink.
Children's innocence does last for ever; they will all too soon find out what the real world is like. Should the state - the NHS and the Department for Education and Skills -be protecting children from sordid reality or exposing them to it as early as possible? I suppose the answer depends on whether you view children as vulnerable individuals in need of protection or as resources to be exploited in an unscrupulous "health professional's " or teacher's career development.
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