While respecting the right of parents to protest the province's new sexual education curriculum, a spokesman for the Greater Essex County District School Board calls it a missed learning opportunity.
Scott Scantlebury says a number of schools across the board have heard from parents who intend to pull their children out of class this week. Parents across the province are taking part in a similar demonstrations after a Facebook group called "Parents & Students on strike: one week no school" surfaced. The group opposes changes to the curriculum saying it contains age-inappropriate content.
Scantlebury says those children will be marked absent. "It'll be the responsibility of the parent or the families to make sure that their children are caught up on any work they might miss because of this absence."
He says the board will have no indication how many families are taking part until later in the day.