Ontario Tory minister flip-flops on sex-ed curriculum stance
TORONTO — Ontario’s education minister went back and forth Monday on just what students will learn while her government scraps the province’s modernized sex-ed curriculum.
Ultimately, Lisa Thompson indicated that no decisions had been made on whether concepts like consent, cyber safety and gender identity will be taught in classrooms this fall.
The province’s new Progressive Conservative government announced last week that it was reverting to a 1998 version of the curriculum while consultations are carried out to create a new document.
Thompson first told the legislature on Monday that not all parts of the modernized sex-ed curriculum — updated in 2015 by the Liberals — would be scrapped.