British Columbia’s education ministry is working on a framework to ensure age-appropriate materials are being used in the province’s schools, the minister says.
Education Minister Lisa Beare says she has directed the ministry to develop “a provincial framework that includes a specific criterion ensuring that age-appropriate materials are in schools.”
Beare made the comments during question period in the B.C. Legislature on March 11, after being questioned by Conservative Party of B.C. MLA Mandeep Dhaliwal about books in school libraries and SOGI, the government’s sexual orientation and gender identity program.
Dhaliwal said that parents in his riding of Surrey North were contacting him “daily” with concern over the issue….