REGINA — Saskatchewan’s education minister has suspended Planned Parenthood from making presentations in classrooms after the organization took “inappropriate”…
Dustin Duncan said Thursday that the material, a pamphlet, was recently obtained by a Grade 9 student at the school in Lumsden, north of Regina.Sign up to receive daily headline news from the Calgary Herald, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc. You may unsubscribe any time by clicking on the unsubscribe link at the bottom of our emails or any newsletter. Postmedia Network Inc.
Julian Wotherspoon, executive director at Planned Parenthood Regina, said the organization does not normally bring such material into a classroom. “They’re a reputable source for material that is engaging, informative, sex-positive and stigma-reducing, so we have a lot of their stuff around,” she said of the group that created the pamphlet.“It’s a little disconcerting that this decision was made so quickly and without consultation with us to establish that this resource was not part of what we were teaching,” she said. “We’re hoping they will follow upwith us at some point.
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