The news from Toronto last week was all about a mother's shock when her son came home with an interesting assignment: he had to buy condoms and then compete in a race to see who could put one on a wooden penis the fastest.
The mother is taking the case to the school board, which she will ask to ban this kind of "lesson." The mother, who is also a nurse, felt that parents should be informed of this kind of assignment, and that it was not appropriate for the age group - 14-year-olds! But her greatest concern was just how upset her son was about the whole thing.
Perhaps making a race out of the whole thing will help the children remember the lesson, or perhaps it will al
After her 14-year-old son was assigned to buy condoms and compete with classmates to see who could place one fastest on a wooden penis, a distressed parent will ask her school board in Cambridge to require teachers to communicate with parents about upcoming lessons on human sexuality. A public-health nurse for 20 years, Linda Strobl said she doesn't oppose the curriculum that teaches Grade 9 students about sexually transmitted infections. However, she was incensed with the condom-buying assignment at her son's school-- 75 kilometres southwest of Toronto -- and even more concerned that she knew nothing about it until her son came home upset one day last fall, complaining he didn't want to do his homework for health class. "I was about to tell him he had to do it, when I saw his distraught face and he told me he had to buy condoms for a race,"Ms. Strobl said.
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