Support Ontario's 2015 Healthcare Curriculum:
Place Orillia Public Library Courtyard
Date: Sunday September 9th 2018
Time: 2:00pm to 4:00pm
Sunday September 9th 2018 at the Orillia Public Library Courtyard we are holding a rally in support of the repealed 2015 Ontario Health Curriculum.
The one that was thoroughly researched and consulted that our current provincial government has repealed because they believe "parents weren't consulted" and have reverted back to the 1998 Sex education curriculum.
You know the one that is so old it doesn't even mention sexting, cyber bullying, it doesn't even cover consent or teaching the correct names for our body parts to kindergarten and up. It also has no mention about gender fluidity, or anything related to LGBTQ.
Wasting our tax payer dollars to create something that doesn't need to be created. We are moving backwards here in Ontario, not forwards.
In 2015 we were touted as having the most up to date Physical Health Education Curriculum in the country. Not so much now.
Doug Ford has even implemented a "teacher snitch line" for parents to report if their childrens' teachers dare to deviate from the 1998 Sex education program.
When did it become terrible to teach our children and teens about consent? About what healthy relationships of ALL kinds look like, This includes friendship.
When did it become offensive to teach our children and teens tolerance of others differences?
Why are we okay ignoring that lack of teaching consent is directly connected with rape culture?
Informed children make better choices. Studies world wide back this.
Children who are taught about inappropriate and appropriate touch (physical or sexual) or more likely to stand up for themselves and report it to someone of authority.
Why are we reverting back to a curriculum that favors the sexual predator?
My parents taught us the facts of life by the time were 7 or 8. Too bad, because of societal views at the time, neither thought to teach us about inappropriate touch and that regardless of adult or child it was never okay.
Instead a family "friend" preyed on all three of us and convinced us that it was something we shouldn't talk about or tell because WE would be the ones who would be in trouble.
I had a conversation about inappropriate touch with my son at the age of 4. At almost 10 we have gone into further detail as to what that may look like. I do not want him to ever be put in the position I was put in at his age. Ever.
I am so tired of other parents given the cry "I can teach this just fine to my kids myself they don't need it at school!!"
That's great that you are a smart, competent adult teaching your children consent, the facts of life and tolerance. You would be the
minority.
Why else would I have had to explain to 5+ year olds (I've lost count over the years) that vagina and penis are
NOT bad words, but the proper names for their private parts.
I have had pre teens think that as long as they are having oral sex they can't get STDs.
Or that if their partner pulls out as he cums they can't get pregnant.
And I can't tell you how many people including myself who have been assaulted and we were either brushed aside, told we must have asked for it, or that it was entirely our fault.
I don't even fully comprehend the online atrocities our young people now face. Internet was just being born when I was in high school. Cell phones didn't even become a house hold item until the mid 2000s. It frightens me that now teachers have NOTHING to teach their students about online predators, bullying, sexting etc because it was repealed. And it is NOT in the Interim Sex education program.
But because a small subset believe that because they are responsible parents we don't
NEED this curriculum and the asshat we have for a premier thinks his tiny portion of followers need to be listened to we are now stuck with an archaic curriculum.
Those of you in Orillia and area, come out on Sunday and make your voice heard. Please.
For your Reading Leisure:
The 2015 Revised 2015 Curriculum for grades 1-8
https://www.oaith.ca/assets/files/2015%20Health%20and%20Physical%20Education%20Curriculum.pdf
The 2015 Revised 2015 Curriculum for grades 9-12
http://www.edu.gov.on.ca/eng/curriculum/secondary/health9to12.pdf
A link to the EFTO (Ontario Teachers Federation) on what the 2015 Curriculum meant for staff
http://www.etfo.ca/SupportingMembers/Employees/PDF%20Versions/The%202015%20Health%20and%20Physical%20Education%20Curriculum%20and%20You.pdf
A news story about the difference between the interim Sex Ed Curriculum and the 2015 Health Curriculum
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-the-differences-between-ontarios-interim-sex-ed-curriculum-and-2015s/
A news article that clearly explains why the Interim Sex Ed Curriculum is a lesson in Homophobia where the 2015 teaches inclusion and tolerance.
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-ontarios-dated-sex-ed-plan-is-a-lesson-in-homophobia/
