Ontario Schools to Start Sex Ed in First Grade, LGBT Issues in Third Grade
Ontario is updating their sex-education curriculum and will start teaching children as young as six about consent.
“The world had changed a lot in the last 15 years. Concepts such as smartphones, SnapChat and sexting were not familiar to anyone, let alone students,” Education Minister Liz Sandals told reporters at a news conference.
“Today, we live in a digital and interconnected world where information is literally at our fingertips around the clock. Students have instant access to quite explicit information from unreliable, inaccurate and often offensive sources. This is why it's so important to ensure that our children have the right information.”...