The May 2010 Euthanasia Prevention Coalition Newsletter can now be found at: http://www.euthanasiaprevention.on.ca/Newsletters/Newsletter108(May2010)(RGB).pdf Bill C-384 was soundly defeated by a vote of 228 to 59. Check how the Members of Parliament voted at: http://www.euthanasiaprevention.on.ca/HowTheyVoted.pdf On June 5, 2010, we are co-hosting the US/Canda Push-Back Seminar at the Radisson Gateway Hotel at the Seattle/Tacoma Airport. The overwhelming defeat of Bill C-384 proved that we can Push-Back the euthanasia lobby in the US and Canada and convince people that euthanasia and assisted suicide are a dangerous public policy. Register for the Seminar at: http://www.euthanasiaprevention.on.ca/2010SeminarFlyer(RGB)(LetterFormat).pdf The Schindler family are being attacked by a Florida television station and Michael Schiavo. The Euthanasia Prevention Coalition is standing in solidarity with the Schindler family. My blog comments: http://alexschadenberg.blogspot.com/2010/05/att
Have you read the curriculum? I haven't yet, but as a parent I do, and I often find the rhetoric differs from the reality.
ReplyDeleteMichael: I didn't read the entire curriculum, but I did read the overview provided by the Ministry of Education outlining the content for each grade as well as a number of different commentaries. You are right though as some of the rhetoric and commentary is over the top.
DeleteThis is my more detailed response to someone on Facebook who challenged me to explain my concerns.
"Essentially I believe that the new curriculum doesn't respect the psychological element of the new program in as much as it doesn't seem to respect the 'latency' stage of development (which usually runs from about 5-11 or 12 years of age). Naming anatomical parts etc is fine with me. I have no problem with those elements even in the early grades. But introducing the concept of gender shifting and dealing with specific sex acts at such an early age can be detrimental to a child's development. That period of relative tranquility between the end of the 'fearsome fours' and the start of adolescence is there for a reason and I don't think this curriculum respects this.
As to her contention that opposition to this new program is fueled by homophobia, I believe it is a blatant attempt to salvage it in the face of the curriculum's principle author being arrested on charges of production and possession of child pornography in Toronto. After all, it's difficult to take the word of someone that his proposal best addresses the psychological and social needs of a child when he's caught with thousands of kiddy porn images on his computer.
Fr. Tim