Ontario's Progressive Conservative government will keep consent, sexting, same-sex relationships and gender identity in its new health curriculum, but will shift some lessons to different grades.
"The Liberals used our classrooms to conduct social experiments on our children," Minister of Education Lisa Thompson told reporters at the Ontario Science Centre Friday.
"We did what the Liberals were afraid to do ... We threw the doors open to real, meaningful public and parental input," she said, unveiling the new health and physical education plan and other changes to class sizes and funding.
Premier Doug Ford promised to repeal the previous government's sex education curriculum,
which he said was "based on ideology," during last spring's election campaign. Shortly after taking office, his government scrapped the updated lesson plans and left teachers to use an interim curriculum while they re-did consultations.