Ontario’s controversial new sex-education curriculum is irking some parents so much they’re yanking their children from the public school system altogether.
They’re among a rising number of families in Canada who are home schooling their kids, according to the Fraser Institute, a right-leaning think-tank that says the number of home schoolers is growing.
Several families in London met yesterday with a home-schooling expert to get details about how to pull their kids from school and start teaching them themselves.
“A lot of stuff factored into my wanting to home school, but the new health and sex-education curriculum coming in, it would teach in a way that is contradictory to our values,” said Donna Hoad, who will begin homeschooling two of her three children, ages 11 and six, in September.
“We have had an amazing relationship with their (public) school and their teachers and administrators but . . . we want to teach according to our faith,” she said. (more...)
Are families choosing homeschooling as an option and reaction to the Ontario Health-Ed Curriculum? @LFPress
— Member Services (@hsldacanada) August 5, 2015
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