UPDATED: Toronto school board blinks on sex ed curriculum

Well, maybe not the Ontario Ministry of Education (Lez Sandals, prop.) so much as the Toronto District School Board, more particularly Thorncliffe Park Public School, in the heart of Toronto's Muslim ghetto. In theory at least, Muslims take a dim view of homosexuality, gender fluidity, masturbation and the other perversions being inculcated into the minds of children as young as six (6) by the Liberal government's new sex education curriculum.

Regular readers of WWW will remember that when the curriculum was reintroduced -- after being shelved by then-premier Dalton McGuinty following an outcry from some religious groups -- it was hailed by Ms Sandals and her boss, proudly lesbian Premier Kathleen Wynne, as a necessary update for decades-old materials that did not address "the realities of children’s lives today". The ladies (?) recognized, though, that there would be opposition to the curriculum's pro-queer agenda. Ms Sandals said "I anticipate there will be members of various religions who may object to one thing or another...but the curriculum is the curriculum that will be taught in Ontario schools."

Well yes... unless the objectors happen to be Muslims. It's OK to push immoral nonsense into the Catholic schools, because the Catholics themselves don't know what to believe any more. But no bien pensant Canadian politician wants to offend Muslims! So there was much soiling of silks at Queen's Park last September when hundreds of Muslim kids were kept out of Thorncliffe Park PS in protest against the very explicit material which is to be taught.

Fast forward to this week, when the first lessons in anatomy were due to be taught. The curriculum calls for children in Grade 1 -- yes, Grade 1, age 6 -- to be taught the correct names for what Mr. Bookman* called "peepees" and "weewees" and "wawas". Thorncliffe Park Principal Jeff Crane told the meeja today that because "a number of parents" (sounds better than "hundreds") had concerns about their children being taught the words "penis" and "vagina", the school decided to offer a class where teachers covered the key issue of inappropriate touching without being specific about body parts. The idea, the educator said, was to keep kids in school this week and at least learn some of the curriculum.

"We let parents know ahead of time when the health strands for human development were being taught and, for Grade 1, that there would be one lesson where there would be discussion of body parts," he said. "They were told if learning the names of genitalia was a concern, they could write me a letter requesting a religious accommodation."

What Mr. Crane did not say was that (1) almost all of the parents requesting the "religious accomodation" are Muslim, and (2) Thorncliffe Park Public School is located in the riding represented by Premier Wynne. No pressure, then. Yet Mr. Crane held 20 sessions with more than 650 parents to go over the curriculum and to "counter misinformation circulating in the community".

In the result, about 60% of Thorncliffe Park's 300 Grade 1 students were taught the explicit curriculum, with the remaining 40% getting what Mr. Crane called "the sanitized version". Will the same choice be extended to parents at other schools in places like Markham (high concentration of Chinese) or Mississauga and Brampton (predominantly south Asian)? And what about the Catholics who are asking for the new curriculum to be adjusted to teach "sex education from a Catholic perspective"? Will any further changes be made to the liberal secular humanist propaganda? Stay tuned!

* Note from Ed.: If you don't remember Mr. Bookman, go to YouTube and search "Seinfeld + Bookman".

UPDATED 26/5/16 with some further reading: "Trustee says drop in TDSB enrolment due in part to sex ed changes", (Toronto Star 26/5/16). Finally they admit it!

ON to allow parents to withdraw kids from pro-queer sex ed classes

News from the Pink Palace in Toronto this morning is that the LGBTQ types who (allegedly) run Ontario's government appear to have flinched in the face of stubborn resistance to their new pro-queer sex education curriculum. Lez Sandals -- Minister of Education in the government of Kathleen "Proud to be a lesbian" Wynne, has announced that parents who are still opposed to the new curriculum being taught in publicly-funded schools this year can pull their kids from class.

This flies in the face of statements made last week by officials of the Toronto and Peel Region public school boards -- the largest and second-largest in the province -- that any requests for students to opt out of learning about "gay families" or "diverse gender identities" will not be tolerated. See "Ontario's 'dirty' sex ed curriculum going ahead. Worried parents scramble to get kids out" (WWW 2/9/15).

Why the sudden volte-face? [Did you learn that word in school? Ed.] Looks from here like protests orchestrated by Parents As First Educators (PAFE) and others are having an effect. At Toronto's Thorncliffe Park Public School (whose students are predominantly from Muslim families), almost half the students were kept home by their parents this morning -- the first day of the new school year. Instead, they gathered in an open space near the school to have classes under the trees, just as they would have in their countries of origin. A spokesthingy for the parents said the boycott would continue till month's end or beyond.

Complaints from parents -- not just Muslims but Hindus and Christians and even the non-religious -- have ranged from a lack of consultation, to lessons not being age-appropriate, to not wanting their kids to be taught about same-sex relationships and different "gender identities". An underlying, even more important theme of the protests is that teaching about sex and family life should be done by parents, in the home, not by teachers shackled by a pro-gay, anything goes curriculum written by a gang of secular humanists including at least one convicted pedophile.

Will allowing parents to withdraw their kids from sex ed classes be enough to stop the growing protest? Or will concerned parents keep it up until the new curriculum is "temporarily withdrawn for further study", as happened back in 2011 when Dalton McGuinty was Premier of Ontario and Kathleen Wynne was... wait for it... the Minister of Education responsible for the whole queer mess. Stay tuned.

Footnote (added 9/9/15): CTV's flagship station in Toronto took an online poll yesterday on a simple yes-no question: "Do you support the new sex education curriculum?" Of almost 4000 responders, 78% voted NO! Agent 3 reports that when they asked a similar question back in the spring, and got a similar negative answer, they didn't reveal the results on the 6 pm news. This time they did. The people of Ontario are speaking, but will Kathleen Wynne listen? Walt doubts it. Lifetime pct .951.

Further reading: "Wynne wrong about sex-ed consultation": Lorrie Goldstein in the Toronto Sun.

Don't leave your kids' education to "experts", warns Pope

Just saw, on the Radio Vaticana website, a report of the catechesis given by Pope Francis at the General Audience this morning. Click here for the English version.

In remarks which might well have been directed especially to the people of Ontario, the Holy Father focused on the role of parents in the education of their children, which he called "an essential characteristic" of the family.

Intellectual critics, he said, "have silenced parents in many ways, to protect the young generation from the damage -- real or imagined -- of family education.... The family has stood accused, among other things, of authoritarianism, cronyism, of conformism, of affective repression that generates conflicts."

Pope Francis went on to say that so-called experts took over the "role of parents even in the most intimate aspects of education.... On the emotional life, personality and development, rights and duties, the 'experts' know everything: objectives, motivations, techniques."

Worse, he continued, "Parents tend to entrust ever more to the 'experts', even for the most delicate and personal aspects in their lives.... And this is very serious!"

Indeed. The problem of trusting the liberal, secular humanist "experts" is at the core of the controversy over the Ontario Ministry of Education's new, pro-LGBT sex education curriculum. Much of the protest against it comes from immigrants from "backward" places like the Middle East, Asia and Africa, who have not yet learned that the "experts" -- like the disgraced child pornographer Benjamin Levin -- know better than they do.

Parents of Ontario (and the rest of Canada, the United States and all the ships at sea), listen up! Pope Francis says some strange things, every now on then, but in the matter of who's responsible for your children's education, he's speaking natural common sense. Don't leave your kids' education in the hands of the likes of Dr. Levin, Lez Sandals and Kathleen Wynne. Stand up on your hind feet and fight back!

VIDEO: What's really in Ontario's new sex ed curriculum

Is it sex-ed -- or grooming? Ezra Levant walks Ontario parents through the Wynne-Sandals-Levin sex-ed curriculum, from the "anal fluids" to the "nine different genders." Direct quotes from the published curriculum give the answer. But are Ontarians paying attention?



This video was recorded before Benjamin Levin pled guilty to three kiddy porn charges. As Mr. Levant says, Dr. Levin was one of the movers and shakers behind the new curriculum.

And yes, there's a petition, one of several now circulating on the Net. Click here to visit the Protect Our Kids website and sign the petition. Walt recommends doing so!

A reader wrote to me yesterday to say that the new curriculum seems almost certain to be implemented unchanged. If I were a betting man, that would be the way I'd bet. BUT... that doesn't mean that the majority who are opposed to forcing the LGBT agenda on innocent children should accept in silence the perverted notions of those who, like Kathleen Wynne and Lez Sandals and Ben Levin, think they know better!

Ontario parents protests plan to teach kids about oral and anal sex

Anger at Ontario's new "improved" sex education curriculum continues to mount. The new curriculum, which was drafted by "progressive education experts" including one who has just been convicted of serious kiddy porn offences, has been on the drawing boards for almost ten years.

The new curriculum will teach children as young as six (6) about homosexuality, abortion, same-sex marriage and deviant sex, including oral and anal sex. [Whew! I thought you were going to say "sodomy". It's not PC! Ed.] It is backed by Liberal Premier Kathleen Wynne, who is openly lesbian, and her Education Minister, Liz Sandals, who is not.

One may ask if the Liberal government is conducting a test of some kind, to find out just how gullible and sheep-like the province's people really are. If so, they must be disappointed in the results, because, even though Ms Sandals has announced that the new curriculum will be introduced in Ontario schools -- including state-funded "Catholic" schools -- this fall, come hell or high water, concerned and downright angry parents are turning out by the 100s and 1000s to protest having the LGBTQ education agenda forced down their children's throats (so to speak). See "Anger mounts at 'graphic revisions' to ON sex ed curriculum", posted here February 23rd.

Last night, a couple of Liberal MPPs and trustees of the notoriously left-learning Toronto District School Board held a "health and physical education information session" in the Toronto suburb of Scarborough, which, together with neighbouring Markham, has a large Chinese population. From his years in China, Walt knows that the Chinese are very conservative, at least publicly, when it comes to matters sexual. There is no sex education in Chinese schools at any age. Such things are left to the parents. And last night the Chinese (and other "ethnics") turned out in force to say that's the way it should be!

The parents, taxpayers and voters who turned out didn't come to be "informed". They had something to say, and were determined to say it. Things started out with a couple hundred protesters outside holding signs and chanting. Inside, the "educators" attempted to run a workshop with the customary PowerPoint show designed to convince people that there's really nothing to see here folks, just harmless stuff like teaching kids the polite names for their naughty bits... at age six (6).

The frustrated and unruly crowd wasn't having it. The meeting turned into a shouting match, with several in the audience heckling the presentations. Some parents tried to get those shouting to stop, but what ended up happening was yelling back and forth and heated exchanges. Tempers were flaring. "You don’t mess with people and their kids," said former TDSB trustee Sam Sotiropoulos. "There will be more protests."

An angry parent, Jewell McGregor, told a reporter, "Nobody in school authority should be teaching children about anal sex or oral sex.... They are saying we are all a bunch of idiots, but I think any adult who wants to teach anal and oral sex to children has something wrong with them."

Kathryn Chang, speaking for the Parents Alliance of Ontario, said, "We are primarily a Chinese-Canadian group. We generally don’t protest, but in this case we have people here tonight from Agincourt, all the way to Mississauga and Markham. People feel strongly about this. Teaching children these things at this age is way too soon."

Will Kathleen Wynne and her friends get the message that it’s not just religious groups or "homophobes" who are opposed to the the immoral curriculum? Her Liberal government has a majority in the Ontario legislature, so they can pretty much do as they please for the next 3+ years, and the public be damned. Stay tuned.

Further reading: "Political orthodoxy on same-sex marriage, pro-queer sex education harms parental rights, freedom of speech and religion"

Further watching (VIDEO): "Ontario sex-ed: They're teaching my kids to do what?" - commentary by Brian Lilley

Click here to sign the petition "Stop Graphic Revisions to Ontario’s Sex Education Curriculum"