Glimmer of Hope for Canadian Parents with Catholic School boards' Decision to Delay Radical Sex-ed Curriculum

Lianne Laurence : Jul 6, 2015
LifeSiteNews

A delay "buys parents more time to keep protesting and putting pressure on MPPs to demand the total repeal of the curriculum..."

(Toronto)—Parents' rights advocacy groups are hoping the decisions by a French and an English Catholic school board to delay implementing the Ontario Liberal government's controversial sex-ed curriculum will spur other Catholic school boards to follow suit. (Photo via YCDSB.ca)

York District Catholic School Board (YDCSB) education director Patricia Pearson told parents in a June 25 letter that "the revised curriculum is expected to be implemented in classrooms in Spring 2016." (Photo: Patricia Pearson/via YCDSB.ca)

Rejean Sirois, the director of education for French Catholic Conseil scolaire de district catholique Centre-Sud (CSDCCS) wrote a similar letter June 18 informing parents that the sex-ed component of the revised Health and Physical Education curriculum won't be introduced until February 2016.

This has Teresa Pierre, president of Parents As First Educators (PAFE), hopeful that "other boards follow the courageous example of these boards" and Jack Fonseca of Campaign Life Coalition welcoming the decisions as "a bit of good news for parents, indeed."

A delay "buys parents more time to keep protesting and putting pressure on MPPs to demand the total repeal of the curriculum," Fonseca noted. "Hopefully parents in all the other Catholic school boards can leverage this development to demand their trustees at least do the same."

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To sign a petition to stop Ontario's graphic sex-ed curriculum, click here.