Toronto school board threatens Tories over criticism of ‘no opt-out’ policy on homosexual classes
TORONTO, Ontario , – The Toronto District School Board is threatening action against the Ontario PC Party after the party targeted the board’s mandatory “anti-homophobia” program in a flyer during last month’s provincial election campaign. In an October 24th letter to PC leader Tim Hudak , TDSB board chair Chris Bolton claims the flyer included “inaccurate and misleading comments” about the curriculum and wrongly alleged that the board was keeping it “secret from parents.” The curriculum, which begins discussing homosexual families in kindergarten with books like “Gloria Goes to Gay Pride,” and aims to transform students into social activists by the end of high school, explicitly forbids parents from opting their kids out of the controversial classes and advises schools not to alert parents in advance. The PC Party, led by Tim Hudak, has held firm and refused to apologize for criticizing the Toronto curriculum. The flyer, distributed in some GTA ridings the weekend before the Oct.