In September 2020, relationships and sex education (RSE) became compulsory in all English secondary schools, and relationships education became compulsory in all English primary schools, marking a significant step forward in the fight to establish children's rights. Although the new RSE regime will help to ensure that many English schools provide pupils with a far more comprehensive RSE curriculum than ever before, the statutory guidance underpinning it includes a number of caveats that mean, although the subject is compulsory, not all children will receive the same content. Arguably, along with the right to withdraw (which is often exercised on religious grounds), the most insidious of these ‘carve-outs’ allows faith schools to teach RSE according to their ‘distinctive religious character’. This exemption has been used to defend the use of religious RSE resources that critics maintain are misogynistic, homophobic and often draw heavily on pseudoscience, as well as to justify leaving certain topics (such as same-sex relationships or trans rights) out of classroom discussion altogether. Drawing on empirically informed normative case studies and recent reforms to the curriculum in Wales, I argue that faith-based carve-outs to RSE policy imperil children's access to a distinct package of educational goods. Using a recent framework for educational decision-making based on these goods developed by Brighouse et al. I go on to conclude that such policies are politically and morally unjustifiable (at least if one agrees that the relevant package of goods is desirable). I further maintain that, even when considered from the perspective of human rights law—which is often given as a pragmatic reason to allow more permissive policies with respect to teaching topics that may impinge upon parents’ deeply held convictions—there are no necessary grounds for governments to legislate for the subject to be circumscribed by the religious beliefs of parents or the faith ethos of the schools children attend.

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基于信仰的分拆问题：RSE 政策、宗教和教育产品

2020 年 9 月，关系和性教育 (RSE) 成为所有英语中学的必修课，关系教育成为所有英语小学的必修课，标志着在争取儿童权利的斗争中向前迈出了重要一步。尽管新的 RSE 制度将有助于确保许多英语学校为学生提供比以往任何时候都更全面的 RSE 课程，但支持它的法定指导包括一些警告，这意味着尽管该科目是必修课，但并非所有儿童都会接受相同的内容。可以说，随着退出权（通常基于宗教原因行使），这些“分拆”中最阴险的允许信仰学校根据其“独特的宗教特征”教授 RSE。这项豁免已被用于捍卫宗教 RSE 资源的使用，批评者认为这些资源是厌恶女性的、恐同的，并且经常严重依赖伪科学，以及证明将某些主题（如同性关系或变性人权利）排除在课堂讨论之外是合理的共。借鉴经验丰富的规范案例研究和威尔士最近对课程的改革，我认为基于信仰的 RSE 政策例外会危及儿童获得独特的教育产品包。使用最近由 Brighouse 等人开发的基于这些商品的教育决策框架。我继续得出结论，此类政策在政治上和道德上都是不合理的（至少如果人们同意相关的一揽子商品是可取的）。我进一步认为，