St. Albert Public Schools — located northwest of Edmonton — approved a new, optional junior high course on sexual minorities’ perspectives.
“This may well be the very first 2SLGBTQIA+ course developed and offered in Alberta's history,” said MacEwan University child and youth care professor Kristopher Wells in a Wednesday tweet.
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How to be a pedophile is next
Very sad times we are living in
This will be a course that will be really valuable in the students future job hunting. Good luck finding someone to hire you with that on your resume.
Last thing the students need is a course on "Deviates & Perverts" . . . this is way over the top and outside the Education mandate.
How about teaching kids Economics, Civics & how to Write a Resume . . .
This is what happens when a large % of Teachers are "Experts" in the Alphabet Lifestyle.
Kristopher Wells was a key advisor to the ATA and David Eggen, former "education" minister when the NDP was strangling Alberta. https://legacy.teachers.ab.ca/For%20Members/Professional%20Development/Diversity-Equity-and-Human-Rights/Sexual%20Orientation/Gay-Straight%20Student%20Alliances/Pages/Ten%20Steps%20to%20Creating%20a%20GSA%20in%20your%20School.aspx
The SOGI 123 curriculum Prism Toolkits were rolled out in 2017. https://legacy.teachers.ab.ca/For%20Members/Professional%20Development/Diversity-Equity-and-Human-Rights/Resources/Pages/PRISM-Toolkit.aspx
Don’t teach them how to be adults with skills and knowledge that they will need, like how property taxes work etc. Pull your kids from school folks. Live in smaller homes so your wife doesn’t have to work and educate your children at home.
How about a course on "How to Survive When Grown-Ups are Deliberately Taking Advantage of Youth & Innocence to Indoctrinate Children with Whatever is the Fashionable Propaganda of the Day".
This wokeness has to stop! The school boards must be defended entirely until they stop the leftist agenda.
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