Ontario school board aims to eliminate non-inclusive terms—like ‘husband and wife,’ ‘mother and father’

BELLEVILLE, Ontario, February 2, 2015 (LifeSiteNews.com) -- A poster campaign by an Ontario public school board advises its 15,000-or-so students that it is not appropriate for them to use words such as mother and father, husband and wife, or even Mr. and Mrs.

Instead, the Hastings & Prince Edward District School Board located in Belleville, Ontario, says that students should say "parents/guardians," "partner or spouse," and call adults by their first names rather than say "Mrs. Smith."

The posters put up in the board's schools run the gamut of politically correct speech, from "gender inclusive language" to "sexual orientation and sexual identity inclusive language," with the admonitions that "inclusive language uses terms that include a range of possibilities in relationships and families," and "language that depicts all relationships as heterosexual denies the complexity of human relationships."  (more...)

Ontario school board aims to eliminate non-inclusive terms—like ‘husband and wife,’ ‘mother and father’