Thorncliffe Park Public School and Physical Education Curriculum

Gerri Gerson: The province revised health and physical education curriculum started in September 2015, according to CBC. One school in particular, Thorncliffe Park Public School, which runs from grade 1 to 5, saw a drop of enrolment of about 90 students. Thorncliffe Park school offers 'sanitized version' of sex ed for Grade 1 students "We don't know exactly why the drop has occurred," Gerri Gerson, TDSB trustee for Ward 13, Don Valley West, told Metro Morning on Thursday. "Our projections are usually quite accurate and we do feel that there some factor having to do with the sexual health curriculum." She said the TDSB expects its projections to be off by about one per cent, or 1,700 students, every year, but there was a loss of 2,083 elementary students in the 2015-2016 school year. Thorncliffe Park Public School is offering parents the chance to choose whether or not they want their children to learn specific names of genatalia as a way of religiously accommodating them. Some students are learning about "private body parts" instead of proper names for genitalia. Following protests by hundreds of parents in September, Thorncliffe Park began to allow some Grade 1 students to attend alternative classes on sexual health in May. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.