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Respondents largely supported the curriculum, expressing liberal values such as respect and inclusion, and requested further education integrating comprehensive sexuality education into Ontario’s school system. 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The purpose of the study was to understand teachers’views of the aims ofthe 2015 revised “sex ed” curriculum and the public debate that surrounded it, as well as to explore their own values around the teaching of sexuality. The respondents overwhelmingly supported the curriculum, expressed liberal values that included respect and inclusion, and called for more education to integrate comprehensive sexuality education into the school system. The findings are relevant to ongoing political battles focused on education in Ontario and across Canada.  \nKeywords: sex education, Ontario, teachers, aims and values, public controversy, politics  \nCanadian Journal of Education / Revue canadienne de l’éducation 42:1 (2019)©2019 Canadian Society for the Study of Education/ Société canadienne pour l’étude de l’éducation  \n[www.cje-rce.ca](www.cje-rce.ca)  \nRésumé  \nCet article rapporte des résultats d’un sondage web effectué en 2017 par les enseignants d’éducation physique et santé de l’Ontario. Cette enquête visait une meilleure compréhension du point de vue des enseignants sur la révision des objectifs et valeurs du programmed’éducation sexuelle de 2015, de la controverse publique qui s’en est suivie, ainsi que del’exploration de leurs propres valeurs sur l’enseignement de la sexualité . Une vaste majorité des répondants ont supporté le programme, exprimant des valeurs de tolérance telles que le respect et l’inclusion, et ont demandé davantage de formations afin d’intégrer une éducation sexuelle plus complète dans le système scolaire. Ces conclusions sont pertinentes considérant les débats politiques actuels axés sur l’éducation en Ontario et à travers le Canada.  \nMots-clés : éducation sexuelle, Ontario, enseignants, objectifs et valeurs, controverse publique, politiques  \nAcknowledgements  \nThis research was supported by a grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.  \nThe author would like to thank Jessica Wright, Caileigh Guy, Maria Ahmed, and Taylor Berzins for their excellent assistance with this research. Thanks also to the reviewers and editors for valuable feedback on earlier drafts.  \nCanadian Journal of Education / Revue canadienne de l’éducation 42:1 (2019) [www.cje-rce.ca](www.cje-rce.ca)  \nIntroduction  \nSex education is a public policy “hot potato” that can trigger profound public discord and bureaucratic chaos. The Government of Ontario released a new health and physical education (HPE) curriculum in 2015 that included updates to the teaching expectations for sexual health and human development. While the revised sex education (or “sex ed”) curriculum was welcomed by a majority of voters (McKay, Byer, Voyer, Humphreys,& Markham, 2014), vocal opposition to the government’s initiative stoked heated public debate (Rushowy, 2016; Rayside, 2017). A very similar curriculum had already been developed, unveiled, and then promptly retracted in 2010 by then-premier Dalton McGuinty; his successor, Liberal Premier Kathleen Wynne, held her ground and implemented the curriculum in 2015.  \nIn June 2018, Wynne was defeated by Conservative Doug Ford on a highly socially conservative platform. Newly formed parents’ organizations and political groups were instrumental in positioning the curriculum as a political wedge issue and propagating the sense of widespread dissent, especially among marginalized religious and ethnic communities (Hune-Brown, 2015; Shipley, 2015). On his first day in office, in July 2018, Premier Ford repealed the curriculum for Grades 1–8 and announced that those grades would revert to the 1998 version of the sexual health components for the 2018–19 school year (Ferguson &","cbCaidTkpAlYS7HS","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaidTkpAlYS7HS","pdf",337895,41,"English","# Abstract\n# Keywords\n# Acknowledgements\n# Introduction","[{\"question\":\"What was the purpose of the 2017 web-based survey of Ontario teachers?\",\"answer\":\"To understand teachers’ views of the aims of the 2015 revised “sex ed” curriculum and the public controversy around it, and to explore teachers’ own values regarding teaching sexuality.\"},{\"question\":\"What were teachers’ overall attitudes toward the 2015 sex education curriculum?\",\"answer\":\"Respondents overwhelmingly supported the curriculum and emphasized liberal values such as respect and inclusion.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the article connect its findings to broader public and political debates in Canada?\",\"answer\":\"It links teachers’ perceptions to ongoing political battles over education in Ontario and across Canada, especially disputes surrounding the sex education curriculum.\"}]","Ontario Teachers’ Perceptions of the Controversial Update to Sexual Health and Human Development | PDF",1792083729,103]