Abolished in the 2000s: not for the return of the sex education classes at school

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Sébastien Proulx

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Friday, 20 October 2017 23:25

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MONTREAL – While many groups require the return of sex education classes at school, now the minister of Education closes the door. It is, however, determined to impose on the teachers to talk about sex education in schools as soon as next year.

Training courses in personal and social have been abolished in the 2000s, but now, after the revelations of the last days, the opposition and several representatives of groups of victims of crime require the return of these courses.

While he was visiting Montreal, the minister Sébastien Proulx has said that he wants to impose the obligation on schools to integrate concepts of sexual education.

“It will be necessary to increase the pace to make it happen, because people are asking for it, I want it to. It was last year as a pilot project this year open to all schools. The next year I would like for it to be mandatory, said the minister. So the message to all the world that’s going to happen, I prefer to be a partner for them to be imposing.”

For the school year 2015-2016, a fifteen schools participated in the pilot project. This number is increased to about 200 for the year 2016-2017. However, of this number, no school of Montreal.

The idea of extending this practice does not pass from the trade unions: “That it was done correctly, not sprinkle five to 15 hours in the curriculum, for French, for math, for science lessons. It makes no sense,” says Nathalie Morel, of the autonomous Federation of education.

For his part, the president of the Federation of trade unions of education, Josée Scalabrini, said that the environment is in need of funding, and preparedness to establish such a measure.

“When the business world is united and that we decided that we wanted a course of financial education, in six months, that is, a year? It’s been seven years that we trample on the course of sexuality education. Is it possible to be serious and do things properly?” asks Ms. Scalabrini.