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Premier (New Brunswick, Canada) defends banning sex ed group despite not seeing presentation
CBC news ^ | May 28, 2024 | Jacques Poitras

Posted on 05/28/2024 3:18:11 PM PDT by jerod

Premier Blaine Higgs is defending his decision to ban a sex education group from provincial schools despite acknowledging not having seen the entire presentation that provoked criticism from some parents.

Higgs told reporters Tuesday that he made the decision, announced in a message posted to the social media site X last Friday night, after being sent a screenshot from the presentation given in several schools last week.

"I was sent the presentation, the screen shot," he said, before correcting himself: "I was never sent the entire presentation."

Asked if his ban was based solely on the screenshot, Higgs said, "Next question?"

Higgs also would not say why his social media post directed readers to a survey on the issue on the Progressive Conservative Party of New Brunswick website.

"Do you have another question?" Higgs said...

The 'screenshot' in question...

...Teresa Norris, the head of a charity called HPV Global Action, which operates a youth sexual education resource called Thirsty for the Talk, told CBC News on the weekend that schools receive an outline of the content in advance and must consent before the presentation.

(Excerpt) Read more at cbc.ca ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: blainehiggs; canada; childabuse; newbrunswick; schools; sexed; sexeducation; sexindoctrination; sexualizingkids
Children deserve sex education... What they don't deserve is 'sex indoctrination'.

This sort of material appears to be a bit too much info for children to be viewing.

1 posted on 05/28/2024 3:18:11 PM PDT by jerod
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To: jerod

Did kids get sex education from strangers in the in the early 1900s? 1940s? Look at a textbook from that era and you’ll be amazed at how bad it is today.


2 posted on 05/28/2024 3:26:47 PM PDT by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2024... RETURN OF THE JEDI. )
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I remember having a film presented by a Medical Doctor, and parents having to sign a permission slip AND attend along with their kid. Public school in the 1960s.

Strictly segregated presentations - one just for boys and another for girls of course.

The kids whose parents didn’t sign or couldn’t attend had to go to study hall.


3 posted on 05/28/2024 3:31:03 PM PDT by bigbob
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Way too much but of course CBC paints this guy as a Neanderthal because he didn’t watch all of it. I’ll bet they try to get this guy removed when he is exactly right.


4 posted on 05/28/2024 4:04:26 PM PDT by gibsonguy ( )
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“Did kids get sex education from strangers in the in the early 1900s? 1940s? Look at a textbook from that era and you’ll be amazed at how bad it is today.”

...and the thing is, they still had kids back then. Seems like they didn’t need to be taught sex, at least in the schools.


5 posted on 05/28/2024 4:09:54 PM PDT by BobL
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To: jerod

Sex education should come from parents and not from groomers.


6 posted on 05/28/2024 4:22:38 PM PDT by Bigg Red (Trump will be sworn in under a shower of confetti made from the tattered remains of the Rat Party.)
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To: BobL

Every generation thinks THEY invented sex and attraction. Funny how people didn’t need a sex class from a school teacher back then.

And something else. A cold, clinical, this is named that, and this is called a whatever, and it can be pleasurable when you do this, make sure to get a signed consent form etc etc. That ruins things. Better to find out at the right age in the backseat at the drive in theater etc.

Progressives take the fun out of everything.


7 posted on 05/28/2024 4:58:12 PM PDT by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2024... RETURN OF THE JEDI. )
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My sex ed lecture in the early 70’s....

“Girls keep your knees together. Guys keep your pant’s zipped. End of your sex ed lecture”


8 posted on 05/28/2024 9:11:51 PM PDT by lizma2
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despite acknowledging not having seen the entire presentation that provoked criticism from some parents.

The Premier saw enough to make his decision.

9 posted on 05/28/2024 11:22:01 PM PDT by magooey (The Mandate of Heaven resides in the hearts of men.)
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You don’t need to smell s__t to know that it stinks.


10 posted on 05/28/2024 11:28:07 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: jerod

The lack of objectivity in the headline, which is only carried further in the article, says a lot.


11 posted on 05/29/2024 6:34:02 PM PDT by Faith Presses On (Willing to die for Christ, if it's His will--politics should prepare people for the Gospel)
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To: jerod

How Canada Devolved into a Managerial State
BRUCE PARDY MAY 30, 2024

Our mistake, over these centuries of reform, was that we did not go far enough.

We did not take power away from institutions to rule over us. Instead, we just moved the powers around.

Today, as in the days of kings, the law is based upon the authority of those who govern, not upon the consent of the governed.

https://brownstone.org/#:~:text=How%20Canada%20Devolved,of%20the%20governed.


12 posted on 05/30/2024 8:06:35 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (“If voting made any difference, they wouldn't allow us to vote!” )
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