Have you read the new Ontario sex ed curriculum? If you haven't, you should. Why?
Because it's fantastic.
Let me list a couple things that have been introduced to the curriculum, which, in my opinion, are very beneficial and helpful things to teach our provinces youth.
1) "In grade one, children will be taught to identify body parts, including genitalia, using their correct terms (penis, testicles, vagina, vulva) and to recognize exploitative behaviours such as inappropriate touching."
2) "In grade two, the concept of "consent" will be introduced very broadly as the right to say "no" in threatening situations. This has been misrepresented by many critics as "teaching children the concept of consent," which is then in turn further misrepresented as "teaching children to consent to sex.""
3) "The concept of human and animal reproduction -- presented broadly as the union of the egg and sperm -- has actually been pushed back a grade, moving from grade three to grade four, and the first discussion of sexual intercourse occurs in grade five, the same as in the previous curriculum."
4) "In the 2015 curriculum, children will be taught to respect people's differences. Starting in grade three, they will be introduced to the concepts of gender identity and sexual orientation as invisible characteristics; other examples include learning abilities, allergies, and cultural values."
These are just a few of them.. which I will repeat, I think are very beneficial and important for our youth to learn. However... many people don't agree. In fact, there are major protests and arguments against the curriculum.. without getting into detail, those who are against it are more or less catholic/christian.
People are threatening to remove their kids from the Ontario school board and home school them because people can't seem to read sentences word for word.. One common example I am finding is that parents are saying "I don't want my kid being taught how to masturbate in grade 6".. when if you read the actual curriculum, it absolutely does not teach your kids HOW. It explains the concept of it, what it is, but they absolutely do not have a teacher come into class and teach your children how to fuck themselves. That's disgusting, I agree. But that isn't what the curriculum is saying.
Teaching your children in grade 3 that "a boy can play with a pink toy and a girl can play with a blue toy and that's okay" is NOT teaching your kid to be gay or encouraging them to be gay.
Every single positive thing added to the curriculum has some counter statement that someone butchered completely from the original statement to make it perverted or ungodly... If I get into each one, you will be sitting here reading for a long time.
I will cut this short because I can feel myself getting angry at the people who are against this.. the people who are going to limit their childrens education and development.. who are going to take them out of school and shelter and isolate them from the world and its truths. The new curriculum is really good, it will help young kids simply open their minds and reassure them they can be their own person, teach them things they need to learn to do safely to protect themselves in the future, teach them that they can say "no".. Any parent willing to take that away from their child is just messed right up and clearly doesn't want the best for them.
side note: seriously though.. if you read the actual curriculum word for word.. the statements you're seeing the protesters saying are actually so horribly butchered. It makes me question the worlds intelligence if they can't even read or understand the words they're reading.
sources: http://globalnews.ca/news/1853112/blog-the-straight-facts-on-ontarios-sex-ed-curriculum/
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/karyn-pickles/ontario-sex-education-curriculum-update_b_6746012.html
http://news.nationalpost.com/2015/02/23/read-ontarios-new-sex-ed-curriculum-for-yourself/ (the actual curriculum is in here for grade 1-8 and post secondary)
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