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The Edmonton Public School Board has vowed to convince its principals to stop using the pro-life Pregnancy Care Centre to teach sex education in high schools. According to acting superintendent, Lorne Parker, the board received complaints from parents about increasing concerns after an Edmonton teen and her mother launched a complaint to the Alberta Human Rights Commission.
In her complain, the mother Kathy Dawson told the commission that school district’s use of the Christian-based centre to teach part of a core course infringed on their rights as non-Christians. She mentioned that “all they said was the negative things about contraception…and only positive things about abstinence.” It was explained that “on the first day [my daughter Emily] texted me that they’re telling the girls to be careful what to wear.” Dawson revealed that she visited her daughter’s class the next day and remarked that “I started taking notes because things just got crazy…Some of the things like, 60 per cent of boys carry HPV under their fingernails, uh, gonorrhoea killing you in under three days.” Additionally, her daughter alleged that they also portrayed single parents in a negative light.
However, Parker alleged that a board review found that the group’s workshops followed all guidelines for the sex education portion of CALM, i.e. Career and Life Management, a course required for high school graduation. He stated that “the information being provided was not of a religious nature and was aligned with the curriculum and scientifically based.”
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