It was late in coming, but the Ford government’s revised curriculum for Ontario schools came out last week, and the English public school board that serves our region is generally pleased with it.
DSB One chairman Bob Brush says among the 300 Â pages is direction to boards to devise a procedure for parents to exempt their children from parts of the sex ed teaching plan they object to.
They have until the end of November to do that.
“The ministry did recommend earlier that a five-day period is recommended for parents wishing to exempt so that alternate areas of the curriculum could be covered in more depth,” Brush notes.
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Brush also welcomes realignment of some of those topics so that they’re introduced at more appropriate age- or grade level.
“I notice some were shifted that were done in four up to grade six. Others that were done in grade six were moved down to five. So they did that kind of juggling, based on the information and feedback the ministry got on those topics.”
Brush says he’s also pleased that the new sex-ed guidelines build on the 2015 curriculum.