Ontario Premier defends sex-ed curriculum. No big surprise there. But I had to give my head a shake (or two) when I heard this on the radio:
I think I speak with an understanding of the information available to children today. They are going to get this information. We [can] provide it in a format and in a venue in which we have some control, or they can just get it entirely on their own and be informed by potentially uninformed sources like their friends at school.”
The revised curriculum, which will be implemented in Ontario schools beginning in the fall, will see Grade 3 students being taught about gender identity and sexual orientation. This is the first time this topic has been specified in the sex education curriculum.
Students in Grade 6 will learn about masturbation and wet dreams while those in Grade 7 will be taught about oral and anal sex.
I won’t argue that more sex-ed happens in school buses than I care to admit. However, there is a marked difference between a 7-grader telling her schoolmates about anal sex and learning about it in a classroom from a teacher. Being taught in school gives it a legitimacy that school-bus discussions do not. My children have heard things in the bus that I would never have taught them myself but because they had received this information from unreliable sources, they asked us parents about it. This is where the school should not usurp the parents’ better judgment, beliefs and values. My children, my house, my spin. Or is this what Dalton really means when he says “uninformed sources?”
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Brigitte wonders: So, what’s the next logical step? If we really do care about children getting as much accurate and reliable information about sex as early as possible, why aren’t they staging live demonstrations (along with practice sessions) supervised by licensed experts right there in the classroom?
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I don’t know if this was the same CBC radio interview, but I heard a grown woman describing a newborn’s touching his penis as self-pleasuring (in not quite so raw a language–but the concept was clear none the less) while promoting taking sex-ed away from the parents and putting it in a libertine, value-fee context in the classroom.
This needs to be denounced for what it is: grooming.
My 13 month old daughter is still not able to climb a chair and in 6-7 years she’s going to learn what anal sex and the rest is?? Really? Is this putting her education into perspective? The option to withdraw her from the class is moot as the other classmates who attend the sex-ed classes will be talking about it and she’ll be left out and ask even more questions – why do I have to be forced on how to raise my child when the CTB isn’t covering her diaper costs now? Who put $$ into Dalton’s pocket to bring this into schools? Condom companies?
why can’t she just stick to the tough choices – of what color crayon to use next? Seriously!!