After 23 years of teaching and 10 years of active union involvement, I have found that nothing can be more volatile to a teacher’s career than overstepping some pre-conceived sexual boundary.
As a union representative I have been required, on more than one occasion, to provide assistance to teachers facing disciplinary action for upsetting specific student sensibilities with words such as “masturbation” and “wet dreams” in the course of a lesson.
So when the Ontario Liberals made public their intention to introduce a new progressive sex-education curriculum, my professional anxiety went up. (more...)
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