Just whose children are they?

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Sir: I picked up The Chatham Voice – my first ever – and it won’t be my last. On page 6, the Op-Ed, “Listen to our children,” and on page 7, a half-page ad by the Ontario government promoting their sex-ed curriculum with “Our Kids Have Questions.” Believe me, “Our Parents Have Questions, too!”

Let’s get one thing straight. It’s not OUR children, i.e., the government’s and the parents’. Children belong to their parents. When they spend 1,142 hours in school and 7,618 hours at home per year, whose children are they?

Why is the Ontario government spending $1.8 million of our money on ads promoting their agenda?

Why did the half-page ad appear in every weekly newspaper in one particular riding?

Why did Premier Kathleen Wynne slough off the Freedom of Information request showing only 1,638 respondents out of the 4,000 parents she said would be consulted?

Why does the premier refuse to postpone the sex-ed component of the Health & Physical Education curriculum to September 2016 to allow real parental input?

Why is the Liberal government bullying thousands of parents and trampling on their beliefs and values?

Most important, why the deafening silence of the two local school boards – Lambton-Kent District and St. Clair Catholic District? Surely their members are unworthy of the title “trustee.”

As in the editorial, “Listen to our children,” my plea is “Listen to our parents” so they can listen to their children, because only fathers and mothers love them and know what is best.

Anne Stewart

Chatham-Kent

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