Mon Mar 14, 2022 – 7:45 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) — The Calgary Board of Education condemned the upholding of “self-control” as a “necessary virtue” in sixth-grade sex education, claiming such an ideal is detrimental to “healthy” sexuality.
“The idea of ‘self-control is a necessary virtue’ is a heavily faith-based concept that erodes the ability to learn about healthy sexual relationships,” the board wrote in a Draft Curriculum Review Briefing submitted to the Regular Meeting of the Board of Trustees on March 8 as part of its criticisms of Alberta’s current K-6 curriculum.
A review of the current curriculum’s “physical education and wellness” section for Grade 6 shows that “self-control is a necessary virtue” is a verbatim theme of the curriculum. The overview of sixth grade teaching about “human reproduction” adds that “It is important to think clearly before giving consent to anything that may have long-term physical, emotional, or social consequences.”
The board further accused the curriculum’s teaching on “sexuality” of being “presented in a heteronormative way,” and of involving “faith-biased understandings” such as that which refers to pregnancy as a “natural process” while categorizing birth control as “artificial.”
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