TDSB calendar shocks 6-year-old's dad

[Swede]

This Toronto dad is just not ready to explain to his first-grade son about transgender people, prostitutes, AIDS or female genital mutilation.

So one can imagine his shock when he found these issues listed as special days of recognition in his son’s Toronto District School Board 2011-12 daily planner.

“I was looking through this thing and was shocked by the kind of days they are marking as ‘days of significance,’” he said.

The first one that jumped out at him, under a headline that said “equitable and inclusive,” was Nov. 19’s Transgender Day of Remembrance.

http://www.torontosun.com/2011/09/13/tdsb-calendar-shocks-6-year-olds-dad

[surrealAmerican]

1. Silly parent.

He's under no obligation to discuss any of the "days of significance" with his child just because they're listed on a calendar. Did you get a look at that listing? They list a slew of holidays from a plethora of religions, as well as days to comemmorate all sorts of secular things. If he thinks that "world social justice day", "transgender day of remembrance", "nirvana day", or "ash Wednesday" are too complicated for his six-year-old to understand, he can just ignore them.