(_b_) Where a pupil is to be charged before the Children's Court
the principal should be asked to make a recommendation regarding
the future of the child either independently of, or jointly with,
that of the Child Welfare Officer. At the present time the
principal is merely asked to report to the Child Welfare Officer,
although, from his longer experience of the child, he may be in a
better position than that officer to suggest what should be done.


=(5) Sex Instruction in School=

The views of the Committee on the whole subject of sex instruction are
given elsewhere in the report. Here it is emphasized that, apart from
the biological aspect as a part of nature study in the primary schools
and general science in the post-primary schools, the school in general
is not the place for class instruction in sex matters.

Incidental features of sex hygiene will arise naturally from physical
education and can be adequately treated there.

It is felt that the teaching of the fuller aspects of the sex relation
between men and women requires an emotional link between the teacher and
the taught, and it should not be looked on as a duty of the school to
forge this link. But where ignorance persists, through the failure of
the natural agencies, the school should try, if a suitable person is
available on the staff, or by the employment of a specialist, to remedy
the omission.