Mandatory Indoctrination — "Not About Parental Rights"

That's what the Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board suggests:

Public school children in Hamilton, Ontario will not be permitted to withdraw from classes that promote homosexuality, according to the Hamilton Mountain News. At the same time, according to a leaked document obtained by a local journalist, teachers are being instructed to tell parents who object to the curriculum that “this is not about parent rights.”

At the end of January, the Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board (HWDSB) hosted a professional development day dedicated to “equity” training, where they distributed a sheet to teachers with “quick responses” they can offer to parents who object to the school board's “anti-homophobia” curriculum.

That document was obtained by journalist Mark Cripps, and posted on the website of the Hamilton Mountain News. Cripps observes that the handout “basically indicates parents have no rights when it comes to their child’s education at the HWDSB.”

In addition, Cripps reports that, “The board says no child will be excused from the class when topics of homosexuality are brought into the classroom.”

The school board is developing a new equity policy, as required of all boards under the Ontario Ministry of Education's equity strategy, announced last year. Among other things, the Ministry is requiring all boards, Catholic and public, to develop a plan for combating “homophobia.”

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So, here you have it. Objecting to mandatory socially perverse indoctrination - "is not about parent rights". And notice that Catholic school boards aren't exempt. While they're still allowed to keep the word "Catholic" in their name (for how much longer?) they have become de-facto part of the general public school network - with all the funding, yes, but also with all the obligations, including the obligation to act as their bureaucrat bosses dictate.

Ironically, the news leaked on February 15, which is "Family Day" in Ontario and some other provinces. Well, that's a nice Family Day gift, isn't it? I wonder how many families actually find the courage to reject the anti-family gift from a bunch radical Marxists that run the local school board and simply stop sending their children to public schools? At least - in those days for which the socially perverse lectures are scheduled...