Ontario education minister goes back and forth on sex-ed stance
Toronto, July 16 (IBNS): Lisa Thompson, the newly appointed education minister of Ontario, is uncertain about the modernized sex-education program, media reports said.
She connoted that the ministry of education is still unsure whether topics like consent, cyber safety and gender identity will be in the curriculum this fall or not.
During the summer election campaign, Premier Doug Ford vowed to scrap and replace the sex-ed curriculum, arguing that parents had not been consulted properly.
"We know they need to learn about consent," Thompson said at the legislature. "We know they need to learn about cyber safety, we know they need to learn about gender identity and appreciation. But we also know that the former Liberal government's consultation process was completely flawed."
Later, she told that only a part of the curriculum would be scrapped, not the entire course.
However, in a statement this afternoon, Thompson's office appeared to differ from her comments earlier in the day.
"We have made no decisions on what the new curriculum will look like. The final decision on the scope of the new curriculum will be based on what we hear from Ontario parents," the statement said.
According to critics, 1998 version did not incorporate several modern theories related to cyber safety for children and same-sex marriage.
(Reporting by Satarupa Biswas)
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