Lawyers defending the province’s repeal of the 2015 sex-ed curriculum told a court on Thursday that teachers can still use it as a resource while abiding by the interim curriculum. “I can’t stand here and say teachers can say whatever they want. Have your sayJudges asked Green whether teachers could discuss key issues such as consent with elementary students, which are expectations of the 2015 curriculum, but not the current one. He said nothing prohibits talking about consent, if that’s something teachers want to draw upon in how they teach the current curriculum. “It’s a false dichotomy to say they can either use the 2015 (curriculum), or the 2018 one,” he said.
Source: thestar January 10, 2019 18:33 UTC