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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.
Policy Program Memo.162
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We have also attached an article by Lou Iacobelli explaining to our parents about the Ontario government’s Provincial Policy Memorandum 162 .
DEC
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