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Students at 100+ schools walk out to protest sex-ed changes

Students at more than a hundred schools across Ontario have pledged to walk out of class this afternoon to protest changes to the province’s curriculum.

Indygo Arscott, 16, who is two-spirit and uses gender-neutral pronouns, is an organizer of the province-wide walkout called “We the students do not consent.”

The protest is in response to the provincial government scrapping a revised sex-ed curriculum for elementary school students, reverting to a version that was created in 1998.

The walkout is also in opposition to the cancellation of curriculum-writing sessions designed to fulfil findings of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

Arscott, who is Indigenous, says the government-imposed changes leaves the teen feeling underrepresented in the classroom.

A spokeswoman for the province’s education minister encourages people to participate in the education consultations that are set to begin next week.

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