WATERLOO, Ontario (LifeSiteNews) — An Ontario Catholic school board refused to answer questions from parents as to why their children were playing games centered on sex in a grade four classroom.
During a May 1 meeting, the Waterloo Catholic District School Board (WCDSB) remained silent as concerned parent Patricia Castillo revealed that her fourth-grade daughter played a “penis and vagina game” in health class, at the teacher’s instruction.
“I want to end child indoctrination at the hands of ideologically possessed adults in the school,” Castillo declared, describing the game as “sexual grooming.”
“This popular trend to sexualize children should not be pushed in the classroom or in the school library,” she added.
According to Castillo’s daughter, the game consisted of two students standing in front of the class and each being assigned either the word “penis” or “vagina.” The students took turns saying their assigned word until one of them laughed. Whichever student laughed first was the loser of the game.
As Catholics, we are taught that we must love our neighbour and treat every individual as a child of God, accepted with respect, compassion and sensitivity.
Parents make a clear choice when they decide that their children will attend a Catholic school. They rightly expect that trustees, principals, teachers all partners in education will ensure that Catholic teaching is presented, lived and infused in all that we do. In that regard, the appropriate symbol that represents our faith, and the inclusion and acceptance of others, is the cross, which is visible at the entrance of every Catholic school. It is the primary symbol of our Christian faith.
We have created this petition to express opposition of flying the pride flag at schools for the month of June. Our kids should not be forced to celebrate anyones sexuality, and a flag will do nothing to keep anyone more safe. Its nothing more than a symbol of sexual celebration, completely inappropriate.
Catholicism and parental rights are being threatened, and we will not allow teachers who are LGBTQ to influence our children.
We are not homophobes. We are trying to shield our children from any sexual ideologies, both gay and straight. Children are minors who have a right to a normal and innocent childhood. We are not STAKEHOLDERS. We are parents. EQUITY is not and will never be the same as EQUALITY. Inclusion means EVERYONE and the York Region Catholic District School Board & its Union members are infringing upon our religious beliefs by suffocating our children with woke political agendas & indoctrinations when they should be focusing on educating our kids!
We love all humans equally. Hate is the wrong word to describe parents feelings about the climate in schools today. Parents protesting the pride flag at school do not harbour any negative feelings towards the LGBTQ+ community. We do however feel that their rights seem to supersede everyone elses. We also believe that kids should never learn about sex at school and we condemn any classroom discussion or public display that encourages or promotes gender confusion and same sex lifestyles in a classroom setting. We also strongly condemn the nature of several library books that contain sensitive material on homosexuality and transgender issues in elementary school libraries. Similarly, we harbour no contempt for transgenders as individuals but their insistence on using female-only spaces is invasive.
The promotion of a pride sticker and the likelihood that a flag will go up in June at all schools suggests a particular political agenda, which warrants examination. Concern about alleged incidents of bullying directed at the LGBTQ community within schools has been raised. However when requesting specific information on the actual number of such reports, it was communicated that the data is currently confidential and not publicly available. Despite clarifying that only the number of incidents was desired, the same response was given.
The lack of transparency and information provided by the York Region Catholic District School Board concerning alleged incidents combined with these extreme campaigns using safe space stickers to promote political agendas, raises necessary questions about their motives. Despite facing opposition from relevant individuals, including the Archbishop of Toronto and Cardinal Collins, who have both explicitly expressed their disapproval of such displays, the union and its members have vehemently insisted the stickers remain.
We must stand up against this before the Board caves to the pressure of political correctness and decide to raise the pride flag too.
Please share this. We must get as many signatures as possible before May 20th so that we may present a united front at this months meeting with this petition in hand that will speak for itself and will represent all of us.
Thank you.
Sheree D
Castillo stated that her daughter told her about the game during the summer break. In September 2022, she spoke to the principal of the school, asking him if the game is still played and what the objective of the game is. However, Castillo has yet to hear back from him.
While Castillo was allowed to present her concerns to the board, the board had previously announced that the trustees would not respond to questions during the meeting.
After her presentation, Castillo asked the trustees to raise their hands if they thought the sex game played by children was inappropriate. However, none of them did, to which someone from the visitors’ area can be heard to shout, “Cowards!”
Jack Fonseca of Campaign Life Coalition told LifeSiteNews that the teacher who had the children play the sex game should be investigated by police.
“A warrant should also be sought to search their computer for any criminal images involving children that might exist,” he added. “When we see stuff like this, an adult that appears to be sexually grooming children with explicit sexual games, alarm bells should be ringing.”
“We have known for many years that the teaching profession has a serious problem of educator sexual misconduct involving students, so this is not something that can be ignored or swept under the rug,” Fonseca warned.
Unfortunately, this is not the first time the WCDSB has pushed the LGBT agenda on children. The board came under fire in April after a slew of racist tweets by WCDSB trustee Wendy Ashby surfaced, in which she called white Christian males “the most dangerous creature on the planet.”
“The WCDSB has already had its reputation ripped to pieces by the ex-trustee, Wendy Ashby, over her bigoted, racist, anti-Christian views,” Fonseca declared. “Reports of what appears to be sexual grooming of very young students in the classroom by teachers only adds to the disgrace of this board.”
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Additionally, the Waterloo Catholic School Board banned Campaign Life Coalition and Rebel News from a meeting following the release of a viral video of the school trustees refusing to answer questions about Ashby’s tweets.
Nearly a month later, Ashby announced her resignation after over 3,000 parents petitioned the WCDSB to fire her.
In early May, a WCDSB survey sent to LifeSiteNews by concerned parents asked students what gender they identify with while providing “trans female,” “trans male,” and “two-spirited” as options.
In recent years, rising rates of transgender identification have been met with celebration and adulation in mainstream culture, while rates of surgical mutilation for minors have spiked. In many public-school classrooms, young children are being actively encouraged to deny their biology and live as the opposite sex.
“It needs to get serious about making changes to excise all the sexual propaganda – and grooming – in our schools which is being done under the guise of the Ministry of Education’s DIE mandate (Diversity, Inclusion and Equity),” Fonseca urged.
“We’re seeing more and more evidence that DIE is just a tool to promote sexual immorality, and to separate children from the authentic Catholic faith,” he declared.