Planned Parenthood says it will be back in the classroom in the fall. The group says it plans to hold discussions with government with the hope of being back in classrooms in the Fall. The Education Minister Dustin Duncan announced the group has been suspended from Health and Wellness presentations in Saskatchewan schools.
00:00:00.000Good evening, we're hearing from Planned Parenthood today after yesterday's press
00:00:10.360conference from the education minister. Dustin Duncan announced the group has been
00:00:15.240suspended from health and wellness presentations in Saskatchewan schools.
00:00:19.320As Wayne Manteca explains, it stems from complaints after a lesson in Lumsden.
00:00:25.720Planned Parenthood won't be invited back into Saskatchewan classrooms for now.
00:00:31.160The organization has been suspended by the education minister. I have directed and
00:00:39.100will be directing boards of education and administration to suspend for the time
00:00:45.800being the work in schools of Planned Parenthood. The government has deemed age
00:00:52.920inappropriate resource material brought into a Lumsden grade 9 classroom. I've
00:00:58.680also directed the ministry to begin a review of all ministry documents as it
00:01:03.780relates to resources and curriculum related to health and wellness classes to
00:01:08.040ensure that they are indeed age appropriate. The material was not part of
00:01:12.660the classroom presentation but available to students seeking information related
00:01:18.000to their specific identity. Planned Parenthood says it will be pulled.
00:01:22.960Yeah, in our discussion with Prairie Valley School Division we had no problem letting them know that we would just remove that from the kit for future interactions.
00:01:34.000The NDP opposition agrees that the material was not age appropriate but feels the suspension is not warranted.
00:01:42.000This is a province that has some of the highest rates of STDs, STIs in the country, some of the highest rates of teen pregnancy.
00:01:49.520There's obviously the need to be teaching sexual health in schools.
00:01:53.520Planned Parenthood believes it has a role to play in supporting curriculum outcomes.
00:01:58.960It plans to hold discussions with government with the hope of being back in the classroom for fall.