Angry parents have threatened to have their children removed from the progressive Waldorf School of Garden City, Long Island, New York City because of new, fifth-grade-level, mandatory sex education requirements that teach, among other things, oral and anal sex and masturbation with graphic illustrations.

The school recently formally disclosed a portion of the new sex education programme to Waldorf parents in March.

However, parents were unaware that it included the contentious book “It’s Perfectly Normal” that their fifth-graders are being taught using despite the fact that they believed it was intended for older children.

“It made me physically nauseous,” one mother told The New York Post.

“There’s a whole page on contraception and vaginal and anal sex and more about how it’s perfectly normal. This is clearly agenda-pushing and it’s so outrageous.”

The Waldorf schools are based on the teachings of Rudolf Steiner, the 19th century Austrian philosopher and teacher, who believed more in experiential and gentle teachings rather than disciplined pedagogy.

At the Waldorf School, fifth graders, whose fees are $30,350 a year, learn when reading “It’s Perfectly Normal,” among other things, that “the ancient Greeks thought that love between two men was the highest form of love.”

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