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Exemption from Instruction related to the Human Development and Sexual Health Expectations in The Ontario Curriculum: Health and Physical Education, Grades 1–8, 2019.

The purpose of this memorandum is to inform school boards1 that they must develop and implement a policy or procedure that allows for students to be exempted, at the request of their parents,2 from instruction related to the Human Development and Sexual Health expectations found in strand D of The Ontario Curriculum: Health and Physical Education, Grades 1–8, 2019. The Education Act authorizes the Minister of Education to establish policies with respect to issuing curriculum guidelines.3 The policy/procedure to be implemented by school boards will allow for students to be exempted from instruction on an individual basis, according to the following conditions: • Exemptions are limited to instruction related to the Human Development and Sexual Health expectations found in strand D of The Ontario Curriculum: Health and Physical Education, Grades 1–8, 2019. Students will not be exempted from instruction related to any other expectations in this curriculum or related to expectations in other curriculum subjects. • Exemptions will be granted only for instruction related to all the Human Development and Sexual Health expectations in a student’s grade, and not for instruction related to selected expectations or groups of expectations.
Please read the attached document.
We have also attached an article by Lou Iacobelli explaining to our parents about the Ontario government’s Provincial Policy Memorandum 162 .
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