He doesn't want to be there, but Jeff Crane is on the front lines of a provincewide debate over the sex education component of Ontario's new health and physical education curriculum.
Crane is the principal of Toronto's Thorncliffe Park Public School.
Crane should have 1,400 students at the elementary school every weekday. Instead, he's averaging about 1,200 as parents keep kids home over opposition to the sex education component of the curriculum, which was updated this year for the first time since 1998.
Crane, exasperated by the protests, told CBC Radio's Metro Morning on Thursday he wants to see the students back in school.
"It's been unlike anything I've ever experienced or ever thought I would experience in a school in Toronto," Crane told host Matt Galloway. "I've spent the past several weeks trying to convince parents to come to school. I never thought we would be doing that in the city of Toronto." (more...)
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