"Parents have deliberately been left out of the
curriculum, but the groundswell of concerned parents must continue to
make their voices heard."
(Toronto)—Taking
as their lead an unprecedented 30-day student school "strike" by
parents at Toronto's Thorncliffe Park Public School, other parents
across Ontario are pulling their kids out of school in the next two
weeks to protest the Liberal government's controversial sex-ed
curriculum. (Photo via LifeSiteNews)
Using the rallying slogan of "We are
Thorncliffe," parent rights' groups in Mississauga, Peterborough, Ajax,
and Oshawa are taking their kids out of publicly funded school at least
one day, if not more.
The Mississauga strike, organized by Nabila Kiyani began today, and will continue on September 21.
The Concerned Parents of Peterborough plans a
one-day strike and picketSeptember 22 with students from both Catholic
and public schools expected to take part.
And the newly formed Durham Concerned Parents
have planned strikes on September 29 in Ajax and Oshawa. "We are
targeting public and Catholic elementary schools in the three ridings:
Oshawa North, Whitby-Oshawa and Ajax-Pickering," organizer Maritza
Sialer told LifeSiteNews in an email.
In the heart of Liberal Premier Kathleen
Wynne's Don Valley West riding, Thorncliffe Park Public School became a
highly publicized flashpoint of sex-ed protest when parents pulled half
the students from classes on the first day of school, and vowed to keep
the "strike" going for the month of September.
Organized by Thorncliffe Parents Association,
the action gained huge media attention, especially since the children
were group-homeschooled in a nearby park, which TPA president Khalid
Mahmood dubbed the "school in the garden."
And while participants decreased from 700
children to about 200 byWednesday, those numbers had surged to 467
children on Monday, September 14, according to TPA's tally, which is
just under one-third of the school's reported expected enrollment of
1,460 students.
These parents' rights and pro-family groups
say that the Liberal government's controversial sex-ed curriculum
violates children's innocence by introducing them to age-inappropriate
explicit information, and by pushing a dangerous sexual agenda.
Pro-family
analysis of the curriculum documents that it introduces children to
homosexuality in Grade 3, masturbation in Grade 6, oral and anal sex in
Grade 7 and that it teaches there are six genders rather than two
biological sexes.
"A time of darkness calls for no compromise
whatsoever, especially when the innocence of our children is at stake,"
Sialer noted. "In a time of darkness there can be no compromising the
light of the Gospel, it cannot be put under a bushel basket into order
to prolong the life of Catholic Education."
"Parents have deliberately been left out of
the curriculum, but the groundswell of concerned parents must continue
to make their voices heard," she added.
"Student strikes are spreading to communities
outside of Toronto, following the groundbreaking Thorncliffe model,"
says Jack Fonseca of Campaign Life Coalition.
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