Students pulled out of school in protest against sex ed

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More than 13 hundred students are registered at Thorncliffe Park Elementary School in East York. 800 students were pulled out of school by their parents to join a protest against Premier Kathleen Wynne’s sex-ed curriculum.

Lou Iacobelli of the Parental Rights Education Defence Fund read some explicit subject matter covered by the new curriculum, and demanded that Premier Kathleen Wynne withdraw the sex-ed plan. “The government refuses to listen to parental concerns about the curriculum, and address them. The only change is that they added consent for elementary kids. Now, I don’t know about you but I think when you talk about consent in terms of sexuality, even adults have problems with it. So we expect children to be able to define, and make their way around that concept? I think it’s age inappropriate.”

Premier Wynne responded today. “The sad thing from my perspective is that children are getting caught in the middle. My hope is that over the weeks and months, that as more and more people understand exactly what’s in the curriculum and understand that once they have looked at the curriculum, if they don’t want their children to be in the classes for the two or three classes of the year that it would entail, that they can withdraw their children from class.”

Iacobelli and the Canadian Families Alliance claim that the Premier is lying when she says parents will be able to withdraw their children from classes on religious or moral grounds.