Flavoured condoms and vagina-shaped lollipops proved too X-rated for Grade 8 students at a Whitby youth fair this week, sending teachers scrambling to stop the sex-ed handouts.
Educators from two Durham Region schools were alarmed to see the sexually explicit candy, meant as a prop for sex education, handed out to students as young as 13 by the AIDS Committee of Durham Region.
A teacher at Meadowcrest Public School complained after Grade 8 students from the Brooklin school were given the items at the Whitby Youth Fair. They were among a larger group of Durham students from Grade 8 to Grade 11 attending the annual fair hosted by the Town of Whitby to promote volunteer opportunities as well as public health information, said Durham District School Board spokesperson Andrea Pidwerbecki.
The AIDS Committee of Durham's information booth staff were handing out brochures about safe sex “and other items related to sexual health education,” said Pidwerbecki. These included flavoured condoms and vulva-shaped chocolate lollipops. (more...)
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