School board trustees concerned that parents opposed to the teaching of Ontario’s new sex education curriculum may be keeping children home on days controversial aspects were taught, discussed ways of measuring attendance for the health classes
Trustees also wanted to accurately measure how elementary school students were responding to the health education classes based on the controversial changes made by the Ministry of Education last September.
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School Board Trustee Dennis Draves (Cochrane) filed a list of a dozen questions to board administrators wanting to know how well the classes were being attended by students.
Draves, a former principal, wanted to gauge how many students stayed away or were pulled out of class by their parents as a result of the new sex education curriculum
“The concern is that some parents may simply pull their children out of class to protest their displeasure with lessons for elementary school grades,” Draves told the meeting of school trustees. (more...)
Trustees are now Wynne's Gestapo?
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