Ontario's Radical Sex Ed Curriculum

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Pr. Jae, can you enlighten me as to what part of the curriculum you are at fear of for your son who is in grade 10?
 
I was thinking that too pinga. I get people being concerned about young kids perhaps learning things too soon. And i have concerns about how skilled the teachers might be dealing with sensitive issues.

But at grade 10? A 15 year old? They know everything from friends, the internet, twitter........,

Learning about consent, sexting, on line predators..... Vital
 
Pr. Jae said:
Our youngest son is in grade 10 in a private school here in Toronto. I'll contact them this week to find out what their stance is on the new sex ed curriculum. We may have to pull him out of class during those teaching times.
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Since the new curriculum is for grades 1 to 8, I wonder why it is an issue for your son in Grade 10? Or for yourself.
 
Pinga said:
Pr. Jae, can you enlighten me as to what part of the curriculum you are at fear of for your son who is in grade 10?
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Fear is not the correct word, Pinga, and I wonder why you chose to use it. The issue is concern Pinga, not fear.
revjohn said:
Since the new curriculum is for grades 1 to 8, I wonder why it is an issue for your son in Grade 10? Or for yourself.
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Just double-checked on that John. The new curriculum is for grades 2-12. Whatever gave you the idea that it stops at grade 8?
 
Pr. Jae said:
Fear is not the correct word, Pinga, and I wonder why you chose to use it. The issue is concern Pinga, not fear.

Just double-checked on that John. The new curriculum is for grades 2-12. Whatever gave you the idea that it stops at grade 8?
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1-12 I meant there of course.
 
revjohn said:
Provincial website only lists 2015 revisions for g1-8.
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I was just there - at the provincial website for the Ministry of Education. It says 1-12.

Even if high school curriculum was not being changed, I would still be going to Queens Park today.
 
I have no real opinion on it at this point as I have not read it. Any reform moving the curriculum towards being more open and dealing with contemporary reality and the rights/needs of LGBTQ youth is a good thing, though. We UUs actually have our own curriculum on the subject (Our Whole Lives, developed in cooperation with the United Church of Christ) that we teach in our churches and has just undergone a revision of its own to catch up to contemporary reality. Of course, it is a sex-positive, LGBTQ-friendly curriculum to start with so the revisions are more to deal with the online stuff and other societal/technological changes of recent years.
 
I can't see a single damned thing to be concerned about, unless you have an issue with facts, or personal responsibility.
 
Pr. Jae said:
The new curriculum is for grades 2-12. Whatever gave you the idea that it stops at grade 8?
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The Province of Ontario has a mandate to set the curriculum from K-12 for all students within the Province. So all students enrolled in k-12 have a curriculum of studies in various disciplines. If this comes as a surprise to any I have no words to describe my shock.

The new sex-ed curriculum includes, as far as I can tell, revisions for grades 1-8.

http://www.edu.gov.on.ca/eng/curriculum/elementary/health1to8.pdf.

If there have been any revisions to the content of the curriculum in grades 9-12 I haven't seen it and it is not listed on the Province's Education site.

Pr. Jae said:
The new curriculum is for grades 2-12. Whatever gave you the idea that it stops at grade 8?
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The Health and Physical Education Curriculum is mandatory for Grades 1-8. My understanding is that some Physical Education component is required in order to graduate but it is more of an elective than it is mandatory. It is also my understanding that it is only the mandatory grades that saw revisions made to the Health and Physical Education Curriculum.
 
(Is there a way I can send photos directly from my cellphone to WC2? That would facilitate my sharing my pictures from today at Queens Park. Thanks.)
 
Pr. Jae said:
(Is there a way I can send photos directly from my cellphone to WC2? That would facilitate my sharing my pictures from today at Queens Park. Thanks.)
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There are likely a couple of ways.

The first would be to send the pictures from your device to another device (like PC or Laptop or tablet) where having multiple windows open is easier.

The second would be to open WC2 on your device and then try to access the images from that device using the image prompt on the post task bar.
 
I don't think so but I've also never tried. You'll have to store them somewhere (I assume Apple has a photo storage and sharing service similar to Google's Picasa) and then use the sharing option to get a link to put into the photo embedding box anyhow. We don't have photo storage here yet.
 
Pr. Jae said:
(Is there a way I can send photos directly from my cellphone to WC2? That would facilitate my sharing my pictures from today at Queens Park. Thanks.)
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Install an app for any photo hosting site, like Imgur. Not sure which sites have apps for Windows Phone. Upload the photos to the hosting site, and the site will give you links you can insert into your posts here.
 
chansen said:
Install an app for any photo hosting site, like Imgur. Not sure which sites have apps for Windows Phone. Upload the photos to the hosting site, and the site will give you links you can insert into your posts here.
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Oops. For some reason I thought he was iPhone. Forgot he was on Windows phone. There's photo sharing available on OneDrive that you should be able to access from Windows Phone, @Pr. Jae. I've only used it from computers but I imagine there's an app for it in WinPho.
 
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