Worth pointing out that the reason schools talk about LGBTQ issues in the first place is that some of the students and their classmates are themselves LGBTQ - this isn’t just a distant political issue that can be ignored until students are adults. How is Poilievre imagining schools should respond if say a transgender child is getting bullied by their classmates? “Ask your parents if it’s okay to bully them”?
I grew up in a Christian school / environment that completely ignored LGBTQ issues. Knowing I was different in some way and not having a word for it, and not knowing why my classmates weren’t reciprocating my crushes (why wouldn’t other guys want an exclusive super best-friend of the same gender…) was hugely damaging for me. Schools have a responsibility to help all kids thrive, and you can’t do that if you don’t educate kids about the very things affecting them and their classmates.
Worth pointing out that the reason schools talk about LGBTQ issues in the first place is that some of the students and their classmates are themselves LGBTQ - this isn’t just a distant political issue that can be ignored until students are adults. How is Poilievre imagining schools should respond if say a transgender child is getting bullied by their classmates? “Ask your parents if it’s okay to bully them”?
I grew up in a Christian school / environment that completely ignored LGBTQ issues. Knowing I was different in some way and not having a word for it, and not knowing why my classmates weren’t reciprocating my crushes (why wouldn’t other guys want an exclusive super best-friend of the same gender…) was hugely damaging for me. Schools have a responsibility to help all kids thrive, and you can’t do that if you don’t educate kids about the very things affecting them and their classmates.