最新动态,零散力量开始互动。
Parental uproar against sex-ed explodes as call for a referendum emerges: Liberal MPP flees from program
Kathleen Wynne ,
Ontario Sex Ed ,
Sex Education
Note: To sign a petition to stop Ontario's graphic sex-ed curriculum, click here.
TORONTO, Ontario, March 12, 2015 (
LifeSiteNews.com) - If Ontario’s lesbian Premier thought winning a majority government last summer meant she could simply foist an explicit sex-ed curriculum update on school-aged children without truly consulting parents, she was dead wrong.
Tens of thousands of parents across Ontario from a diversity of cultural backgrounds are now accusing Wynne of getting between them and their children by forcing on families a sex-ed curriculum that life-and-family critics say is
too much too early and contains a not-so-hidden agenda colored by homosexuality.
Numerous petitions on a variety of platforms calling on the premier to put an end to the curriculum have been signed by thousands upon thousands:
以下为签字反对新教纲的请愿地址
Thousands of parents are also banding together on social media sites such as Facebook to stop the curriculum from coming into their children’s schools. There are plans for
以下为反极端教纲的示威游行罢课和可能的法律手段:
a
protest at Queens Park on April 14, 游行示威
a week-long
parent and student school-strike in May, 罢课
a potential
lawsuit to stop the implementation of the sex-ed. 诉讼
Social media groups include:
以下为社交网站上反对极端教纲的据点:
About 200 parents met in a Brampton, ON, community venue on Saturday to discuss what they thought was “unsuitable” for their children in the updated sex-ed. The meeting was organized by the Home Owners Welfare Association, a group working to protect the rights of immigrant communities.
Attending the meeting were Liberal MPPs Harinder Takhar (Mississauga-Erindale) and Harinder Malhi (Brampton-Springdale).
“There are some issues in the curriculum, I agree,” Malhi told participants at the meeting. “I wasn’t taught these things and I turned out okay. I do see the issue, I do see the concerns.”
自由党内部已经松动。部分政客承认新教纲有问题。
Takhar urged parents to compile a list of concerns they have with the curriculum and forward it to the premier’s office.
Lou Iacobelli, a retired Toronto Catholic District School Board teacher, spoke at the event warning parents about what the curriculum actually contains and called for a referendum on the sex-ed.
“We’re asking for a referendum,” Iacobelli
told Mississauga’s The News after the meeting. “This curriculum is not age appropriate."
Liberal MPP Harinder Malhi, Brampton-Springdale, said she herself has concerns with Kathleen Wynne's explicit sex ed program.
家长建议公民投票决定新教纲的前途。
A
similar meeting was also held on Saturday in Windsor, ON, where parents raised concerned about their children's safety and innocence. A number of parents stated at the meeting that they are now exploring the option of private schooling and even home schooling.
Ally Carter said that the new sex-ed has helped her and her husband to decide to send their children to a private school. “We disagree with the perspective and what is age appropriate. My six-year-old isn’t ready for this,” she said.
“There are a lot more people concerned about this then people think,” said Tracy Walls, who has three of her boys in the public system, to
The Windsor Star. “They don’t speak up because they don’t think their voice matters.”
New Canadian Media ran a story at the end of February about how immigrant parents believe the sex-ed
undermines their parental role.
“We feel that our role as parents [is] being undermined and this is one of the problems… they are going ahead as if we didn’t exist,” said Firas Marish of Oakville, ON. “The goal is to protect our kids and we appreciate that move and we support it, but what we are seeing doesn’t serve that goal.”
Last week Ontario’s Coptic community
rejected the sex-ed curriculum, saying Christian parents were “under attack” by a government that is “attempting to abduct the parenting responsibility from parents and to force a way of thinking on children without regard for Christian beliefs, morals and values.”
“The Holy Bible in Proverbs 22:6 says ‘Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.’ This is truly a responsibility that each Christian parent takes to heart,” Bishop Mina, the Coptic Orthodox Bishop for Mississauga, Vancouver and Western Canada, wrote.
Despite the massive outrage, Wynne continues with her plans to roll out the updated sex-ed for the 2015 school year, leaving parents with the bitter realization that they are being entirely ignored.
如网友所说,宗教力量(如上)和移民力量(如下)开始发力。在移民中华人再次成为主力。
‘We say no!’: Liberal MPP shuts down Scarborough meeting as hundreds of parents challenge Wynne’s sex ed
Ontario Sex Ed ,
Sex Education
Note: To sign a petition opposing the Ontario sex-ed curriculum, clickhere.
TORONTO, March 13, 2015 (
LifeSiteNews.com) -- Angry parents were shut down an hour into an information session on the Wynne government’s sex-ed curriculum March 12 at Scarborough’s Agincourt Collegiate, while 100 protestors outside the school chanted what has become a common answer to a sex-ed curriculum that introduces sexual consent to underage children: “We say No! We say No!”
Inside, boos and eruptions of “We say No! We say No!” persisted despite attempts by a couple of people to calm the mood, until Liberal MPP Bas Balkissoon ended the meeting with a curt statement that at his meeting people would follow his rules, which elicited a final thunderous boo from the crowd of about 200.
Police officers watched impassively as the meeting broke up and dozens of upset attendees surged to the front, surrounding and voicing objections to Toronto public school trustee Manna Wong and Liberal MPP Soo Wong, while Balkissoon, who claimed people with an “agenda” had “hijacked the meeting,” vainly tried to clear the room.
“He shut it down,” said an angry Jewell McGregor, adding that parents were “provoked by the way it was handled.” They had to sign in and sit through preliminary discussions about mundane items, she told LifeSiteNews. “We didn’t come here to talk about allergies,” she said. “They knew that.”
“It was a snow job,” said a digusted Konstatine Kolovis, father of two children aged 7 and 9, who left with Nick Christogiannis, a father of two daughters aged 10 and 11, after a heated discussion with trustee Manna Wong. Kolovis said only 200 people were permitted in the auditorium, and participants had to put their questions in a ballot box. But there was no real security, he said: “They didn’t scan anybody.”
McGregor, who has a 12-year-old daughter and 8-year-old son, said parents were not consulted, and the Liberals survey of parents “didn’t mention oral or anal sex, they hid it.”
She finds it sinister that adults “want to talk about oral and anal sex to 10 and 11 year olds.” Convicted child pornographer Ben Levin was involved in developing the curriculum, McGregor pointed out, adding. “There’s a pedophilia spirit behind it.”
Toronto District School Board trustee Manna Wong speaks to reporters at an information session on the Wynne government's sex ed program March 12.Lianne Laurence / LifeSiteNews
When a reporter remarked that was a strong statement, McGregor asked how she would feel if someone wanted to teach her 11-year-old daughter about anal sex. The reporter looked startled and after a pause said she didn’t have a daughter.
McGregor said she’s not afraid to tell her kids about anal sex, “but when they are ready for that,” which is something “a random teacher” wouldn’t know. She also objected to the idea of sexual consent: “Telling a 12-year-old to postpone sex,” amounts to telling a 12-year-old he or she can have sex, McGregor reasoned, and “it’s illegal.”
But the Liberals seem “hell bent on introducing” the sex-ed curriculum, she said bitterly. “It’s looking more like a dictatorship.”
That was echoed by Mel Woo, a founding member of Parents Alliance of Ontario, organizers of the protest of about 100 people along Midland Avenue which included parents and children from Mississauga to Markham. Woo came to Canada from communist China, only to find “this is a dictating country” and “adults aren’t getting information” about what’s taught to their children, she told LifeSiteNews.
The mother of an 11-year-old daughter, Woo said her group has gained nearly 1,000 members since the February 23 release of the sex-ed curriculum, which she finds astonishing, particularly because Chinese-Canadians truly are “the silent majority,” and seldom get politically involved. In fact, Woo admitted ruefully, many of them don’t vote.
The media portray the vocal parents as “frantic, extremist” and “homophobic,” she said, “lots of labels,” but they are legitimately upset they weren’t consulted and that the Wynne government tried to “sneak all this in.” And the shut down by Balkissoon was more of the same: “That’s the attitude, ‘I dictate to you.’”
Woo said that her community is galvanized and while she is not sure what they will do next, they are promoting an April 14 Queen’s Park rally, and will not give up. “I hate politics,” and she works 11-hour-days, Woo said, but “I feel really angry about this.”