Great column, great read about the sex ed curriculum kerfuffle.
Personally, my favourite point in the whole thing came when I was forcibly confined in a room with the CBC on TV. (Waiting for the ferry from Toronto’s island airport–it was either swim, listen, or put my fingers in my ears while saying “I can’t hear you, I can’t hear you!”)
Anyway, a young woman, author of Laid, a book about “young people’s experiences with sex in an easy-access culture” came on to proclaim how distressed she was that the curriculum had been removed. Her book logo is the word “laid” written on a condom wrapper. Just the sort of role model parents want teaching their children, really.
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My favourite snip from the article is this:
“The Citizen’s Elizabeth Payne opined that “For all its cosmopolitan airs, Ontario is not so far removed from the days when ladies’ auxiliaries, county fairs and church suppers were an essential part of the fabric of life and when public debate centred on worries about the corruption of minors.”
Read more: http://www.ottawacitizen.com/health/Classroom+engineering/2996799/story.html#ixzz0nGyb4Vhr
Wow, they make it sound like Ontarians are far too sophisticated for church suppers and local fairs, and that all that home-grown entertainment is far beneath them. Seems to me we could have a bit more public debate about the corruption of minors, and perhaps the people who are claiming that there is corruption of minors taking place in our society shouldn’t be sneered at or negated to the sidelines.