
Review finds sex health education in Vernon School District is not meeting the standard
A review of sexual health education at School District 22 has found some big gaps that need to be addressed.
During the January 19 school board meeting, Dawn Ansdell, a nurse practitioner, parent and sexual health educator, told the board that the B.C. curriculum includes age-appropriate sexual health education that needs to be taught to kids of all ages.
“Just like how we don’t just start teaching kids calculus, we teach them the building blocks of math; so is such with sexual health education,” said Ansdell.
She said sexual health education has been identified as a human right by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), and with today’s technology, kids are being exposed to sexual health through other means than the education system.