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RSS FeedsRehtaeh Parsons´ father: the 2015 sex-ed curriculum could have saved my daughter
(The Star Travel)

 
 

14 july 2018 03:38:27

 
Rehtaeh Parsons´ father: the 2015 sex-ed curriculum could have saved my daughter
(The Star Travel)
 


When the Ontario government introduced its new sex-ed curriculum in 2015, Glen Canning was living several provinces over in Nova Scotia but decided to take a look anyway. He wound up reading the entire curriculum — all 239 pages — and when he finished, his thoughts immediately went to his daughter, Rehtaeh Parsons, who died from suicide two years earlier.“The very first thing I thought was every single school in Canada has to have this. Every single one,” said Canning, a writer and photographer who now lives in Toronto.“I really wished there was something like that in Nova Scotia 10 years ago. Because if there was — and if consent and empathy and respect were being taught in schools in Nova Scotia — I honestly believe that I would still have my daughter with me today.”Rehtaeh was 17 years old when she killed herself. Her parents say she told them she was sexually assaulted by four teens at a party in 2011, and she became suicidal after a photo from that night — depicting a boy penetrating Rehtaeh while giving a thumbs-up — was circulated around town, leading to months of bullying and harassment. Rehtaeh’s story sparked a national conversation around issues of rape and consent, as well as an independent review that found errors in how her case was investigated. While no sexual assault charges were ultimately laid, two boys were convicted of child pornography charges.For Canning, his daughter’s suffering opened his eyes to the importance of sexual education in schools. So when he learned the Doug Ford government was scrapping Ontario’s updated sex-ed curriculum — and replacing it with a version written 20 years ago — he took to Twitter to express his outrage.In one tweet, he shared a note that he says was written by one of the boys alleged to have assaulted his daughter that was posted to Facebook around the time of her death. The boy described his version of what happened be ...


 
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