Ontario’s 1998 sex-ed curriculum ‘a good foundation’

Ontario’s 1998 sex-ed curriculum ‘a good foundation’
Ontario’s 2015 sex education curriculum included topics that many parents found inappropriate.
The Reader's Turn
8/10/2018
Updated:
8/23/2018

I agree with Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s decision to get rid of the 2015 sex-education curriculum. I think the 1998 version is a good foundation but needs to have careful layers added.

I think scientific names for body parts and accurate information on body development and reproduction are appropriate, but it is neither the school nor the province’s business to teach my child about relationships, wet dreams, anal intercourse, masturbation, or a personal plan for sexual activity. That is the parents’ job. Teaching values is the parents’ job as well.

As for Benjamin Levin, enough said.

Cathy Davis

Brockville, Ontario