Mom outraged after Grade 8 son comes home with “sex book”
Posted February 27, 2013 8:50 pm.
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NANAIMO (NEWS1130) – A Vancouver Island mom says she’s outraged by a graphic flip book her Grade 8 son brought home from school that shows a woman placing a condom on a man and then having sex.
The booklet, called “Put on Something Sexy,” reveals the sex act when the pages are flipped rapidly and was given to the Nanaimo boy as a prize in a sexual-health class.
Cathy Sanders says she was disgusted her son would be given something like the book.
The boy’s father Clay Sanders, says this booklet just went too far. “Where it went over the line is that it panned back and showed a girl, and the full body of the guy, and it showed a girl get up on top of him, and they went through a sexual act.”
Sanders says he and his wife are not “prudes.” “We’re not saying that the kids haven’t been exposed to more through internet or through whatever they see in society but this is an aspect that we think should be controllable.”
“We don’t have a sense of religiosity when it comes to this. It’s not something that we’re banging a drum on anti-pornography or anything like that. It just has to do with what our children are being exposed to without our okay,” says Sanders.
School officials say they took steps to ensure materials used in the classes are age appropriate, but somehow unsuitable materials slipped through onto display tables used by students.
Sanders says the school sent an apology letter to parents but he’s not sure if that’s enough.
Nanaimo-Ladysmith School District spokeswoman Donna Reimer says AIDS Vancouver Island provided some of the material and the district has now asked to pre-screen such items.
“We have procedures in place that schools follow when there’s going to be sex education. Parents are also informed in advance about presentations and told that there might be some material some parents might be uncomfortable with, we review materials when it is presented by an outside presenter,” explains Reimer.
“In this case, that process fell apart somewhat in that the presenter had materials that the school had not reviewed,”she adds.
She says when an administrator spotted pamphlets on oral sex, they were ordered removed from the display. “When the school discovered there were two pieces of material the school felt weren’t appropriate it was removed and an apology was sent.”
Reimer says they will reinforce the procedures already in place to ensure this doesn’t happen again.
