Sir, - I can understand the 200 members of the National Parents Council being nervous of sex education in the classroom and feeling that it is the responsibility of parents to educate their own children, but with the unacceptably high rate of teenage pregnancy in this country, clearly there are an awful lot of parents who are not exercising their rights and taking on this responsibility. Children should not be having children and if that message is not being delivered at home, I can think of no better place to start than in the classroom. - Yours, etc.,
Palmerston Park,
Dublin 6.