Premier Danielle Smith's plan to make lessons on sexual health, and sexual orientation and gender identity opt-in would make Alberta the first Canadian province to assume students are excluded from sex education by default. Alberta's premier says legal changes are coming to require parents and guardians to opt all students in to any lessons about sexual health, sexual orientation or gender identity.
Among those proposals is one that affects almost all 766,000 Kindergarten to Grade 12 students in Alberta. Smith wants parents to opt students in to every lesson about sex education, sexual orientation or gender identity. The law right now requires one notification, and parents can opt out. Alberta's Education Act requires school staff to give parents and guardians advance warning when a lesson, instructional material or exercise will deal 'primarily and explicitly' with human sexuality or religion. The former Progressive Conservative government gave parents and guardians the ability to opt children out of sex education and religion lessons in 2009
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