Even Catholic schools must teach sex ed to six-year-olds: McGuinty (Ontario, Canada)

Yahoo! ^ | 4/21/2010 | Maria Babbage

[Rutles4Ever]

TORONTO - Ontario's Catholic schools can't opt out of a revamped sex ed curriculum even if it goes against their religious beliefs to teach kids about masturbation and homosexuality, Premier Dalton McGuinty said Wednesday.

Several conservative and religious groups claim the changes coming this fall will corrupt young minds with "explicit" topics like anal sex. But Ontario's Catholic premier made it clear that all public schools must teach the lessons that will start as early as age six.

The first changes to Ontario's curriculum in a dozen years will see students learning about masturbation in Grade 6 and oral and anal sex at age 12.

Opponents who are mounting a campaign to get rid of the program have described the curriculum as "evil" and "bordering on criminal." They say teaching eight-year-olds about gender identity and same-sex marriage is inappropriate and should be left up to parents.

But McGuinty - whose wife is a Catholic school teacher - said it's a responsible way to teach kids about sex in an age where it's easy to access information, whether it's from their friends or the Internet. He argues that by including it in the curriculum, the government has some control over the information and can present it in an appropriate way.

Under the changes that were quietly released in January, Grade 1 kids will be taught to identify genitalia - among other body parts - using the correct word, such as penis, vagina and testicle. The 1998 curriculum made no mention of genitalia.

Grade 3 lessons about the differences that make each person unique will now also include discussion about same-sex families and students with special needs to "reflect the government commitment to equity and inclusive education," according to provincial officials.

[Mercat]

I’m reading a book now about the suppression of Catholicism by the Elizabethian regime in the 16th and 17th century. Scary stuff. Largely forgotten.

[fwdude]

But Ontario's Catholic premier made it clear that all public schools must teach the lessons that will start as early as age six.

Is there really any legitimate argument anymore against the fact that homosexuals want to corrupt our kids?

[Snowyman]

April 22, 2010

Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty is sending a controversial sex education curriculum back to the drawing board.

In London Thursday, McGuinty said the document needs more input from parents.

The curriculum called for students in Grade 1 to begin learning the proper terms for sexual body parts and for Grade 3 students to learn about same sex families and sexual orientation.

Christian family values groups were threatening to pull their kids out of class and the Catholic School Boards were refusing to introduce it as written.<>

Within hours, McGuinty was reversing course on the curriculum.

[sydney smith]

They tried to tell me my kids had to learn this in the US(’Catholic school’)also. I told them to go to hell and put my kids in the library for the hour once a week. Told the pricipal he was ‘nuts’ and he wasn’t going to teach my kids porno. I told him that teaching them the Rosary might be a better idea. They told me that “kids need to know this these days”. Yeah right.