Posted on 09/25/2011 3:58:42 PM PDT by Just4Him
TORONTO - This Toronto dad is just not ready to explain to his first-grade son about transgender people, prostitutes, AIDS or female genital mutilation.
So one can imagine his shock when he found these issues listed as special days of recognition in his son’s Toronto District School Board 2011-12 daily planner.
“I was looking through this thing and was shocked by the kind of days they are marking as ‘days of significance,’” he said.
The first one that jumped out at him, under a headline that said “equitable and inclusive,” was Nov. 19’s Transgender Day of Remembrance.
Then came Dec. 1’s World AIDS Day, followed by Dec. 17’s International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers. There was also Feb. 7’s International Day of Zero-Tolerance on Female Genital Cutting/Mutilation and Feb. 12’s International Sexual and Reproductive Health Day.
“It’s just bizarre,” said the outraged dad. “He’s six. I want him to enjoy being six.”
What are those things doing in a young child’s school planner? This boy’s parents may have to tackle these issues far earlier than they planned.
Hoping his son didn’t notice, the dad said he pulled the pages from the book. “The school only goes to the fifth grade so they are not going to be able to say it was in there for the older kids either,” said the dad. “I just don’t get it because the kids in first grade can read.”
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Toronto becoming Beruit?
What do you expect, buddy? You live in Canada!
We don’t have that stuff in the USA. Well, at least we don’t have it everywhere. Yet. Give us a couple years.
What is wrong with Canada?
Kids need to be taught about the dangers of homosexual sex!
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Get that kid OUT of that school, dad!!
Geez! That’s pretty darn disgusting — I’d be offended if it was in *MY* planner - let alone a planner for my kids!
http://www.tdsb.on.ca/_site/ViewItem.asp?siteid=15&menuid=33619&pageid=28623
Falling off the left side of the world.
No Valentine’s Day? No St. Patrick’s Day? Both are holidays that kids usually look forward to, especially at school. No All Saints Day (a holy day of obligation) or All Souls Day, but Wicca days get recognition?
God help us all.
Oh my
The schools in Canada are going downhill, too.
The very premise of public schools (and any private ones that emulate them) is flawed. The ones you mention are just not quite as bad as the inner city ones.
Gives a whole new meaning to the concept of "organ donation."
It is no wonder that Johnny can’t read, write or reason. There’s no time for it in the curriculum.
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