Listly by Cliff Kraeker
Sex Ed in Ontario Schools - the Controversy
Ontario's new sex education curriculum will bring it "up to speed" with most other provinces across the country, experts in the fields of sexual health and education said this week. The Ontario program will also allows instructors to incorporate new issues that impact students' health into their teaching, said Alex McKay, executive director of the Toronto-based Sex Information and Education Council of Canada.
By Lianne Laurence MISSISSAUGA, Ontario, August 19, 2015 ( LifeSiteNews) - An American psychiatrist who has spoken and written extensively on sex-ed says the Ontario Liberal government's sex-ed curriculum is not based in science but "entrenched in ideology," and endangers children by not clearly presenting the consequences of sexual activity.
There has been a firestorm in Ontario surrounding this new, updated "sex-ed" curriculum that is rolling out this coming September. Since our church is full of young kids and young families and because my own daughter in entering school in the fall, I thought it might be helpful to cut through some of the hype and misinformation flying around about what teachers will be teaching, and when.
She a medical doctor with training in pediatrics and in the specialty of child, adolescent, and adult psychiatry. She is also the author of Unprotected and You're Teaching My Child WHAT? She examine the social agendas that permeate her profession, and how they harm society, especially women.
A Toronto teacher has been ordered to work from home after school board officials learned he had posted explicit materials, originally intended for gay bars and bathhouses, in the classrooms of Grade 7 and 8 students since October.