Outdoor classes continue in rain as sex-ed protest enters second day

Children took lessons from parents in Thorncliffe Park on Tuesday as hundreds of
parents kept their kids out of class in protest of Ontario's new sex-ed curriculum
being rolled out this fall.

The group of Grade 2 and 3s took a “field trip” to the library, looking for books as they learned about sentence structure, while the Grade 5s practised multiplication times tables during day two of the outdoor education being provided to about 150 kids in a park as their parents protest Ontario’s new sex-ed curriculum.

Meanwhile, enrolment in the adjacent Thorncliffe Park Public School was 1,028, below a projected 1,460 — but better than the first day of school when it was half-empty.

However, the school was dealt another blow Wednesday morning when the vice-principal arrived to find it, and neighbouring Fraser Mustard Early Learning Academy — a kindergarten-only school — defaced by graffiti saying “shame on you” in four different locations.  (more...)

Outdoor classes continue in rain as sex-ed protest enters second day