Parents scrambling for alternatives to public schools amid sex-ed row

Manahil Khalil, 11, joined a protest outside Premier Kathleen Wynne's office on Wednesday in opposition
to the Ontario government's new sex-ed curriculum. The Grade 6 student is among kids across the GTA
whose families have opted for homeschooling.

A growing number of parents across Greater Toronto who oppose Ontario’s new sex-ed curriculum are making a desperate, last-minute attempt to get their kids out of the public system.

They’re considering home-schooling their children or sending them to private schools, even if just for a short time, to show how upset they are.

“We feel hopeless,” said Khalid Mahmood, a father of five who lives in Thorncliffe Park. His three younger children will not be in class when schools open next week. “Our goal is to do home-schooling for a month, maybe longer,” said Mahmood, who also helped organize a protest rally outside Premier Kathleen Wynne’s constituency office Wednesday.

“We don’t want to be outside the mainstream,” Mahmood said. “Our call is not anti-public school system, but we feel there should be a system that should accommodate all people.”  (more...)

Parents scrambling for alternatives to public schools amid sex-ed row