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RSS FeedsNo price tag or timetable for province-wide consultation on sex ed
(The Star Television)

 
 

20 july 2018 23:30:36

 
No price tag or timetable for province-wide consultation on sex ed
(The Star Television)
 


Premier Doug Ford is vowing the “largest consultation ever in Ontario’s history when it comes to education” on a new sex-education curriculum, but details remain few and far between.As Ford scrambles to keep his election promise to replace the 2015 syllabus opposed by social conservatives, he has pledged public hearings in every corner of the province.While his newly elected government has scrapped that modern curriculum and revived the 1998 version, the Progressive Conservatives have not yet determined a price tag or a timetable for the sweeping consultation process.“The minister is working with our team and officials and looks forward to sharing details on the consultations in the near future,” a spokesman for Education Minister Lisa Thompson said Friday.NDP MPP Peggy Sattler said the lack of a plan is stunning, given that the Tories’ main problem with the 2015 syllabus was the consultation process rather than the curriculum content.“They did not think this through as to how they are going to manage this process,” said Sattler, who has a master’s degree in education policy.“A Pandora’s box of problems is a good way to put it,” she said.Sattler noted things are so haphazard that, as of Friday afternoon, the Ministry of Education website still featured the 2015 curriculum for educators.“The 1998 curriculum has not even been posted to the ministry’s website. It’s still not there. There are a lot of teachers who were hired since 2015 who don’t know the curriculum from 1998,” said the London West MPP.“It’s not even the process of how they’re going to consult and how long that’s going to take and what it’s going to involve,” she said.“It’s what’s going to happen in six weeks when kids go back to school and teachers don’t even have the (1998) curriculum available that they’re going to be expected to te ...


 
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