News Analysis
When parents and others have raised the alarm over sex education in Ontario schools, many have hit the same wall: the province’s Human Rights Code.
School board trustees who support the current sex-ed regimen often frame complaints as discriminatory by citing the code. These trustees, along with the province’s human rights system itself, create a significant barrier to change.
But it’s not insurmountable if the political will is there, experts told The Epoch Times. Solutions they propose include taking on the human rights system itself, and following a path similar to the charter school system.
Premier Doug Ford’s government attempted to change the sex-ed curriculum in 2019 to address parental concerns, but proponents and critics alike say little changed. Topics of concern to some parents remain in the curriculum for the younger grades, including teaching gender as a social construct….