Why am I so passionate?

I was asked why, as a home school parent, why I am so passionate about the repeal of the Ontario 2015 Health and Physical Education curriculum.

This.  This is why:

Because I still teach youth and because of 15 years of working in childcare we still have adults teaching children the proper names for our body parts are dirty words. 

Because teaching consent at a young age is important. Because recognizing when we are struggling emotionally and mentally and when we should seek help/from whom is important. 

Yes I home school, but I have to follow our Provincial curriculum, I have the luxury of teaching the 2015 health and Physical Education Curriculum. 

I also know after reading studies, the 2015 curriculum that I am in the minority for teaching my child with regards to sex ed and now we have children able to access technology at all times of the day in most cases better than their parents realize and that is not the place for our youth to be getting their information. 

And why should I ever think it’s okay for us to revert back to a curriculum that doesn’t address technology, bullying, mental health, consent, addiction, LGTBQ2 and what that means and looks like and I could go on.

I’d be this passionate even if I did not have a child. 

Sexual predators prey on the fact that for the majority of families sex is a taboo topic, it’s bad and that is how they keep their victims silent.

I am a victim of that last point. 

Yes my parents answered and taught us the facts of life, however we grew up in a day and age where we were expected to listen to our elders. Not one did we ever get taught that our bodies were our own. That no one ever had the right to touch us in any way we did not like. Actually we were brought up to kiss and hug our relatives whether we wanted to or not. The “family friend” used that to his advantage. I was first abused at the age my son is now. 
That is how predators work and a strong sex ed curriculum deters predators as well as results in reports happening right away when something happens. 

That is why I’m passionate about this.