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New Brunswick Parents Upset over Explicit Sex-Ed Program for Schoolchildren

WOODSTOCK, New Brunswick, October 21, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Parents of grade 6 to 8 schoolchildren being subjected to explicit sexual education curricula were up in arms Monday night at a public forum debate of the issue.

Over 400 parents attended the forum, according to a CBC report, upset that the curriculum will arguably stimulate greater interest in sex among their children, rather than the intended consequence of reducing teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases through so-called safe-sex education.

Tracy Taylor, whose daughter is in Grade 7 at Woodstock Middle School, said the curriculum is aimed at children who are not ready for the information. She wants to see a greater emphasis placed on abstinence, a theme largely ignored by the curricula. "The new health curriculum touches on this subject and I emphasize the word touches, but the program is not abstinence-based," she said. She plans to remove her daughter from the classes if the course is not modified.

Read the related LifeSiteNews.com report:
Major New U.S. Study Proves That Abstinence Works
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2003/apr/03041402.html
UK Sex-Ed Backfire: Survey Reveals Increased Pregnancy Rates in Teens Subjected to Program
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2004/mar/04031505.html
"Sex Manual" for 12 Year Old School Children has Nova Scotia Parents Riled
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2004/sep/04091701.html

To contact the Woodstock, NB, middle school:
Principal: Ms. Wendy Dickinson; Vice Principal: Mr. John Irvine
135 Green Street, Woodstock, N. B., E7M 1T9
Phone: (506) 325-4436 Fax: (506) 325-4542

School board Superintendent: James Thorburn, Tel: (506) 325-4432, Email:
School Board Director of Education: Colin Craig, Tel: (506) 325-4754 Email:
School Board Supervisor of Physical Education: Avis Fitton, Tel: (506) 325-4310 Email:

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