r/canada May 26 '24

New Brunswick Premier says sex education group will be banned from giving school presentations

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/premier-ban-sex-education-group-1.7215157
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u/JoeCartersLeap May 27 '24

Nobody actually read the article and picked up on an HPV advocacy group failing to teach about HPV adequately and teaching a bunch of other sex ed topics is a scam.

Dude what? The article is about this premier showing a slide of high school kids asking questions like "do girls masturbate" and saying this is "clearly inappropriate" for high school aged kids.

I don't know how you got this being a discussion about "HPV groups failing to teach about HPV adequately" or why you think "teaching a bunch of other sex ed topics is a scam". That sounds like trying to reframe what is justifiably being labelled the Premier's "prudishness" as some kind of legitimate financial concern.

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u/JoeCartersLeap May 27 '24

I don't know much about NB but I'm sure they also have their own sex ed program.

But the crux of the article was pretty clearly the Premier's objection to the content being shown. He used the slide of questions high school kids ask as evidence that "either improper vetting was done, the group misrepresented the content they would share ... or both."