English: As it stands, we cannot support the curriculum Bill. If the Bill continues to remove the rights of parents as primary educators, I cannot, in all good conscience, vote to support its introduction, regardless of any other improvements it brings to education in Wales. The compulsory teaching of RSE, or relationships and sexuality education, and RVE, or religion, values and ethics, is derisory and has been rejected by the public in not one, but two public consultations. Yet, despite the lack of support, the Welsh Government have removed the rights of parents to withdraw their children from RSE and RVE lessons, and they are, in effect, telling parents that the state knows their children better than they do themselves. But, according to the House of Lords judgment in Regina v. Secretary of State for Education and Employment, the child is not the child of the state and it is important, in a free society, that parents should be allowed a large measure of autonomy in the way they discharge their parental responsibilities. The Welsh Government, however, are clearly prepared to ignore that judgment, just as they are prepared to ride roughshod over the views of the parents who have twice rejected the Welsh Government removal of the parental opt-out. This is a topic that parents up and down this nation feel extremely strongly about, and I've had more correspondence urging me to reject this Bill than I have had on any other piece of legislation. And some parents and grandparents have spoken to me regarding what is currently being taught to their children, and some do not think that the content of the lesson for a child of eight, as was told to me, was at all appropriate. So, why do parents feel so strongly on this? Why do religious groups and secular groups share the same opinion on maintaining the opt-out? Because some say, they have stated, that they have seen the sorts of lessons that will be taught under the new curriculum.
Welsh: Fel y mae'n sefyll, ni allwn gefnogi'r Bil cwricwlwm. Os bydd y Bil yn parhau i ddileu hawliau rhieni fel prif addysgwyr, ni allaf, â chydwybod clir, bleidleisio i gefnogi ei gyflwyno, ni waeth beth fo'r gwelliannau eraill a ddaw yn ei sgil i addysg yng Nghymru. Mae gorfodi addysgu addysg cydberthynas a rhywioldeb, ac addysg crefydd, gwerthoedd a moeseg yn ddirmygus ac mae wedi'i wrthod gan y cyhoedd nid mewn un, ond mewn dau ymgynghoriad cyhoeddus. Ac eto, er gwaethaf y diffyg cefnogaeth, mae Llywodraeth Cymru wedi dileu hawliau rhieni i dynnu eu plant o wersi cydberthynas a rhyw a chrefydd, gwerthoedd a moeseg, ac maen nhw, i bob pwrpas, yn dweud wrth rieni bod y wladwriaeth yn adnabod eu plant yn well nag y maen nhw eu hunain. Ond, yn ôl dyfarniad Tŷ'r Arglwyddi yn Regina v. yr Ysgrifennydd Gwladol dros Addysg a Chyflogaeth, nid plentyn y wladwriaeth yw'r plentyn ac mae'n bwysig, mewn cymdeithas rydd, y dylid caniatáu llawer iawn o ymreolaeth i rieni yn y ffordd y maen nhw'n cyflawni eu cyfrifoldebau fel rhieni. Fodd bynnag, mae Llywodraeth Cymru yn amlwg yn barod i anwybyddu'r dyfarniad hwnnw, yn union fel y maen nhw yn barod i fynd yn groes i farn y rhieni sydd wedi gwrthod dileu'r gallu i rieni optio allan ddwywaith. Mae hwn yn bwnc y mae rhieni ar hyd a lled y wlad hon yn teimlo'n gryf iawn yn ei gylch, ac rwyf i wedi cael mwy o ohebiaeth yn fy annog i wrthod y Bil hwn nag yr wyf i wedi'i gael am unrhyw ddarn arall o ddeddfwriaeth. Ac mae rhai rhieni a neiniau a theidiau wedi siarad â mi ynglŷn â'r hyn sy'n cael ei addysgu i'w plant ar hyn o bryd, ac mae rhai ohonyn nhw'n credu nad yw cynnwys y wers ar gyfer plentyn wyth oed, fel y dywedwyd wrthyf i, yn briodol o gwbl. Felly, pam mae rhieni'n teimlo mor gryf am hyn? Pam mae grwpiau crefyddol a grwpiau seciwlar yn rhannu'r un farn ar gynnal y gallu i optio allan? Oherwydd, mae rhai'n dweud, maen nhw wedi dweud, eu bod nhw wedi gweld y mathau o wersi a fydd yn cael eu haddysgu o dan y cwricwlwm newydd.