Lawyers for Grand Council Treaty Three will make arguments to the court in a case brought by the Elementary Teachers Federation of Ontario, which challenges the Ford government’s roll-back of the 2015 sex-ed curriculum.
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Ontario government says it has an interim sex-ed curriculum elementary teachers must follow
The Ontario government has released an interim sex-ed curriculum for elementary school teachers to use this September — and Premier Doug Ford is suggesting there will be consequences if they don’t adhere to it.
Rollback of sex-ed curriculum could harm students, Horwath and health professionals say
Nearly 1,800 health care professionals have signed a petition calling on Ontario Premier Doug Ford to stop his plan to revert to an old sex-education curriculum.
Ontario going back to old sex-ed curriculum in fall, PCs say
Ontario’s education minister says the sex-ed curriculum taught to children in the coming school year will be an older version, not the controversial updated program brought in by the previous government.
Mum wants Sleeping Beauty removed from school curriculum… are fairy tales rife with harassment?
A mother is calling for Sleeping Beauty to be removed from a school’s curriculum claiming it sends an “inappropriate sexual” message. She’s not the first to suggest Disney’s ‘fairy tales’ might have more than a few hidden hints of rape and harassment. Sarah Hall, from Northumberland Park, north Tyneside, blasted the cartoon for failing to […]
Turkey pulls evolution from its high school curriculum
Enlarge / A young Charles Darwin, before evolution had caused any public controversy. (credit: National Library of Medicine) In the US, opponents of evolution have tried to undercut instruction on the topic by suggesting schools should “teach the controversy.” The national education authorities in Turkey, however, have decided that teachers should avoid any hint of […]
