Ontario’s new sex-ed curriculum and Fully Alive

Despite protests from thousands of concerned citizens, Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne and her Liberal party are determined to launch their new controversial health and physical education program in September 2015. Education Minister Liz Sandals claims the government had “strong consensus” from the one parent they consulted at each school.

Like many  Catholics, I hoped for a strong statement from our Catholic leaders. On 24 February 2015, Toronto’s Cardinal Thomas Collins, the President of the Assembly of Catholic Bishops of Ontario (ACBO) addressed Ontario’s Catholics: “While Catholic schools have a responsibility to follow the curriculum set out by the Ministry of Education, they have always sought to do so in a way that conveys, respects, and models Catholic Christian principles to our students. They will continue this tradition.”

In our Catholic schools, the Fully Alive program is part of the religious education program. My twelve-year-old daughter recently came home with a Grade 7 Fully Alive assignment on how to prevent sexually transmitted infections (STI). Her answer included the use of condoms.

 “Condoms?” I asked. “Who taught you about condoms?”

“Oh mom,” she replied. “Everyone knows about condoms. The teacher calls them protection.”

“Did she tell you that condoms are a method of artificial contraception and the Catholic Church teaches that it is wrong to use them for any reason?”

“Oh,” my daughter answered. “She didn’t say that.”  (more...)

Ontario’s new sex-ed curriculum and Fully Alive

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