&gt; It always baffles me to see parents offload absolutely everything on teachers, including responsibilities that should at least be shared (e.g. sex education) or downright theirs (e.g. manners).<p>There are strong social benefits to having sex education &amp; relationship education provided by schools.<p>Most parents leave it to late. Their information is out of date or incorrect. They don&#x27;t cover the relationship stuff, especially the consent stuff.  And they tend to avoid the newer problems or they give simplistic prohibitionary advice.  (An example of a newer problem is &quot;sexting&quot;. If parents do talk about this they tend to say to girls &quot;just don&#x27;t do it&quot;; they tend not to say to all children &quot;don&#x27;t ask other people to send you an image&quot; or &quot;some people are visual, but other people aren&#x27;t&quot; or &quot;don&#x27;t send unsolicited dick pics&quot;.  Some people describe this as weird social conditioning, but frankly I&#x27;m okay with conditioning people to not send unsolicited images of their genitals to random strangers.)