Sir, – Anna Joyce correctly identifies the social shifts in attitudes towards sex as created by modern technology and experienced negatively by our young people (August 4th). However in an effort to formulate a solution that may counter these worrying trends, she unfairly implicates our already overburdened education system as a concomitant part of the problem. As a teacher and a parent working in the secondary school sector, I am fully aware of all the challenges that confront young people and the responsibilities educators must assume in shaping our students' futures.
However there is an underlying assumption that schools can and should provide all the solutions to many of these complex issues. Rather than characterise our schools as antediluvian, it may be more fruitful if we could share some of the responsibilities for sex education with the prime purchasers of these technologies, the parents or guardians of these vulnerable teenagers. – Yours, etc,
ALAN KEENAN
Clonee,
Dublin 15.