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- Title: Parental Educational Opt-Outs and Children's Rights (Human Rights Law)
- Author : LawNow
- Release Date : January 01, 2009
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 60 KB
Description
Provincial and federal human rights law in Canada usually address discrimination on the basis of a number of grounds (e.g., race, religion, gender, disability, and marital status) in various public settings such as employment, tenancy, and services customarily available to the public. Alberta recently amended its human rights legislation--not to address discrimination but to provide parents with the right to be notified by schools if classroom instruction will involve religion, human sexuality, or sexual orientation. Parents can then opt out of this type of educational instruction for their children and have them excused from the classroom. This amendment does not specifically deal with discrimination, and further, the right to exempt children from this type of education is already provided by Alberta's School Act and other educational policies. In addition, parents can now complain to the Human Rights Commission if they believe their rights are violated under this new provision. While this type of provision cannot be found in other Canadian human rights legislation, proponents believe that parents should have the right to opt their children out of discussions on sensitive educational topics. Opposition to the legislation is usually based on the difficulties it will impose on teachers when implementing the exemption, the chill it will impose on classroom discussion, and the subjection of teachers to human rights complaints. There has not been much discussion, however, on how this provision might infringe the rights of children.
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