Doin' the sex-ed shuffle: Schools get creative to deal with a wave of sex-ed opt-outs

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What do you do if 200 kids in a school want to opt-out of sex ed on religious grounds?

This fall, for the first time in Ontario, that’s a real possibility facing some principals.

As political firestorms continue over the province’s new health curriculum, boards are bracing for an unprecedented wave of requests for children to be excused because of their faith.

While a mere handful of lessons per year actually deal with sexual health, requests for exemptions could number in the hundreds in some GTA neighborhoods — and that poses a logistical nightmare.

Where do you put them all while their classmates learn about sexual health? Who would supervise them? If there’s no space and no staff, do you ask dissenting parents to take their kids home? If so, do you schedule these classes at the end of the day to make pickup easier?  (more...)

Schools get creative to deal with a wave of sex-ed opt-outs

Doin' the sex-ed shuffle.