May 5, 2015

Ignorance is Bliss

I am annoyed by something I saw on the news on TV tonight. They were interviewing parents who are protesting the new sex education curriculum in Ontario which for some reason the vast majority were of East Indian decent.
Despite the fact their children can be exempt from sex ed classes, if that is what they wish, the people protesting are removing their children from school completely.
They blame Kathleen Wynne personally for the new curriculum and are making claims about the changes that simply are not true and reek of homophobia.
The new curriculum is now at par with most of the other provinces in Canada and cover far more than same sex relationships (which the paranoid people protesting seem to zero in on)
If it were up to parents like those who are protesting, children would learn nothing about sexuality, the proper name for their genitals, what consent means, bullying and accepting others. I truly feel sorry for the children of these parents. What type of sexual education will these parents teach their children? A very narrow-minded one (if any at all) would be my guess.
If you want to raise your children in a vacuum, sadly that's your choice and measures have been put in place so you can pull your kids from classes that you deem inappropriate. But please stop the fear mongering and thinking you speak for all of us. You don't, anymore than I do. So PLEASE, shut up.