Toronto District School Board and Thorncliffe Park Public School

school Grade: Sex-ed protest leaves Toronto school nearly half-empty Ontario sex-ed protest 'unlike anything I've ever experienced,' principal says The Toronto District School Board said the change is minor and that hundreds of students were missing class due to opposition to the curriculum from religious groups, according to CBC. That pushback prompted the school to offer a "sanitized version" as an option. Thorncliffe Park Public School will teach Grade 1 students about "private body parts" without going into specifics about proper names for genitalia. Accommodating religious beliefs About 40 per cent of the students in the school Grade 1 class were placed in the alternate version of the course by parents. The school found itself at the centre of a controversy last September when hundreds of parents protested and pulled their children from class because they felt the curriculum wasn't appropriate for young children. The alternate version was offered by the school to accommodate religious beliefs of certain families. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.