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  Monday with the Editor: A censorship taboo is

      broken     (cont'd)

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Apple Pie on Channel U

  I guess, by taking a perceived taboo subject and putting it on the small screen for parents and students to see, the authorities are paving the way for parents to come to terms with the fact that sex education is only taboo in their minds. A generation of Singaporeans have grown up used to sidetracking this subject because all along sex education has been sidetracked. But now, it is receiving national attention and rightly so because our children now are more independent when we were. They are definitely more daring to experiment than we were. In my time, it was rare to hold a girl's hands in public. Now, students in uniform neck every so often in public areas. So there is a need to ensure that they do not do the wrong things out of ignorance!

  I think the message is clear - the programme is primed to make us parents sit up and wake up our antiquated ideas. Of course, one episode won't be able to do much - many of us might have missed that episode, and some of us might not have gleaned the message behind the programme (the programme was in Mandarin but the recorded voice was in English). So, perhaps, we can expect more of such storylines in future TV programmes for the family.

  Finally, parents will have to take an active role in educating their children on sex education. They can't just leave everything to the school, can they? It wouldn't be fair to the schools, would it? I mean, when something bad happens, we parents are rightly to blame. We can't just pass the buck to the school and the Government.

  If you missed that episode, you can watch a re-run. The re-run of the Apple Pie series happens every Friday at 1.30pm on Channel U. This re-run is a few episodes behind the current series airing on Tuesday nights at 8pm. So, if you are game for it, be patient. Tune in to your TV these few Friday afternoons and you will soon see what I mean.*

*This note was added after the article was published. The rerun of the episode took place on Friday 20 Jul 2001 at 1.30pm.

 

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