The Education Minister wants to be the one taking the heat over sex education, not schools. 

The new draft curriculum is out for the first round of public consultation before it's written up later this year. 

It proposes children from Year Four learning about consent and gender stereotypes, while high schoolers learn about menstrual cycles and STIs. 

Erica Stanford told Mike Hosking currently, it's up to principals to go out to their community and specify what's taught. 

She says ERO reports found that to be very divisive, and sometimes schools and principles faced a lot of aggression from their communities over the content they taught. 

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