“Gay-friendly” curriculum could be back in court in BC
(noapologies.ca – September 24, 2008)There’s a broad hint that a BC school board, which has refused to implement the new “Social Justice 12″ elective course in its only high school, could be facing legal action. The Abbotsford Board has decided to review the provincially-approved course, and has modified the contents until that review is done. The modifications remove all references to homosexuality. The course is the direct result of the so-called “Corren Agreement”, a deal reached with two Vancouver homosexuals which gave them the right to vet all curriculum in the BC school system to make sure it was “gay-friendly”. There’s a letter to the editor of the Vancouver Sun newspaper today, in which the Correns drop a very broad hint of the punishment they might have in mind for Abbotsford school trustees:
The letter doesn’t specifically say they’ll launch legal action, but it does suggest that “perhaps it’s time the education ministry made Social Justice 12 a required course for graduation.”We are very disturbed the Abbotsford school board has seen fit not to allow 90 students at W.J. Mouat secondary school to take the course until the trustees have had an opportunity to sanitize it of all references to sexual orientation, gender identity and same-sex families. bq. This action is akin to the case we brought against the Surrey school board more than a decade ago, a case in which the Supreme Court of Canada condemned the Surrey trustees for violating the School Act by failing to conduct schooling on strictly secular and non-sectarian principles. bq. The Abbotsford trustees’ action clearly contravenes the B.C. Human Rights Code and the School Act.
