I'm obsessive about triple and quadruple checking facts. If you actually go to the link I gave you, this link is a pro gay website but with a direct link to the actual curriculum.
I have a lot of gay friends in TO.( Music business for a lot of years and a former resident on Isabella. Not one of those some of my best friends are gay kinda thing)
They're pissed off too. Don't you get it? THEY don't want teacher Ratchitt teaching their kids about sexuality either.
We want our kids to have an education. Not to be morally dictated one way or another by a freaking school board.
AND if you go on LGBT websites all around the GTA they are as angry as we in the hetero community are.
That's an interesting point, really. How are gay parents to know that a typical hetero teacher would be able to impart the delicate intricacies that constitute their concept of "normal". A lock-step presentation of curriculum developed by (possibly) hetero educators might not be adequate. Maybe gay "parents" would prefer to present their family views separate from what a school curriculum might present?
Here's my deal on this.
Right from the get go the curriculum by its very nature is telling children that LGBT's are different and you must tolerate them or you get a failing grade. Not a good lesson. Boy I hope I'm saying this right.
"We must teach you how to accept them" basically. This is appalling to me. It's ass backward.
If anything it does the opposite of what the curriculum attempts to seek. It sets apart the LGBT community as "different and to be accepted".
I hope this is making sense. I think children naturally accept each other. It's later in life that warped perceptions happen.
ETA: whoopsie hit submit instead of preview.
Yes. Think about the gay couple who are sort of working it up to explain to their son or their daughter about the love they share and how they live their lives and why "jimmy or jenny" has two mommies or two daddies.
Well Miss Ratchitt just ***** it all up for them doesn't she. Kid comes home going ............"oh you're two mommies. I learned that in class".
You bet gays are pissed off about this too.