Premier Kathleen Wynne will introduce a controversial sex education curriculum into Ontario elementary schools in September 2015.
Controversial because the last time the Liberal government tried to do this in 2010 — when Wynne was education minister from 2006 to early 2010 — it botched it so badly then premier Dalton McGuinty killed it.
McGuinty cancelled its implementation just hours after his own cabinet ministers had vigorously defended the new curriculum, which called for teacher-led discussions of topics such as masturbation, oral and anal sex and homosexuality by Grade 8.
He said the province hadn’t consulted enough with parents, even though his own government insisted it had consulted with the public for two years.
In fact, few parents had heard of the new curriculum until critics, led by Charles McVety, president of Canada Christian College, started campaigning against it. (more...)
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