Its surprising that this topic came up so late here.
1. Not that it bothers me, but how does anyone save a 6 yr old from a pedophile by telling him the correct names of his body parts? I don't even consider calling the penis a penis to be shameful or vulgar, but don't know what advantage it provides to a 6 year old? 1/20 kid might be curious about his/her pee and others parts, but does that warrant the teacher to make everyone else curious and conscious of their privates? A boy and a girl, innocently playing with each other one day suddenly look at/ treat each other in a different way because they have become aware of the differences. How cool. That's how mature and grown up experts kill the kids childhood innocence and then complain that kids are maturing at an early age.
2. What is the benefits of creating doubt's in an 8 year olds mind about his/her birth gender except to bring out or check the transgender quotient? Wouldn't it be better to just teach them to treat everyone with equality and respect while having individual counseling for those who actually demonstrate confusion? Are the teachers so incompetent with the kids who spend 6 hours per day in their class to not be able to detect? It's teachers that need education there.
3. The new syllabus emphasizes the need for sex as a means for pleasure. I never knew that the province has been mandated to teach sexual pleasure and masturbation techniques in school. All kids will indulge in these, but why is it the teacher's responsibility to teach them techniques? The school should be limited to teaching them safety, responsibility and respect for everyone's privacy with regards to individual sexual preferences. They don't teach any kid how to derive pleasure out of drugs, guns, alcohol or video games - how is sexual pleasure different? Are the experts so low on confidence in the kids who will discover their own pleasurable avenues? We all did in the absence of all this graphic education and without internet. The kids of this age are much smarter and resourceful. Once we teach them safety, they can pretty much take care of everything else themselves. At most school should provide counseling for those that seek help and such counseling should be with the knowledge of the parents/caregivers.
4. Has anyone considered the pitfalls of recommending anal sex as safe sexual practice? Once taught in class, it achieves a stamp of approval and encourages kids to go for it even if their bodies are not biologically ready for it. Every boy will expect that from his girlfriend/boyfriend and those who resist face the possibility of being stigmatized/bullied. Even if oral sex is safe, encouraging it in class sessions lends a totally different kind of acceptance- similar to an normal expectation of every date. Is that sex-ed or porn-ed?
5. The very reluctance of auntie Wynne to share the syllabus details with parents raises suspicions of any stellar image of the liberals not withstanding their gifts of e-health and gas plant scandals. By branding all opponents to the new syllabus as homophobic, the premier is a prime example of acceptance behavior. On top of blatantly lie that the pedophile minister had no involvement in the syllabus in the backdrop of leaked internal memos surely gives everyone so much confidence in her words. Let's not discuss about her claims of consulting experts, parents and educators..
6. Not promoting sex does not equal teaching abstinence or no education. It just keeps sex where it should be in a kids life - non distracting. Education should be education of facts and safety, not the encouragement of over indulgence.
7. Irrespective of which platform raises the issue - be it the church, Muslims, right wing, left wing.. Treat it with the merits of the issue and not the platform.
8. Have you noticed the organizations that are supporting this curriculum? Smell any self interest promotion at the expense of kids future?
There is no harm in having a well debated conversation as opposed to dictorial way of ramming through a small groups ideology on to the entire province.
Have a safe day guys.
CS.
This particular issue is making some cultural and religious people trying to block kids from education and it's completely wrong.
