TORONTO – A Magnetawan school is raising the ire of local parents after an assignment asked Grade 2 students if people grow bigger because they are “queer.”
The question was part of a longer Question and Answer assignment that asked kids why people grow larger each year.
The possible answers were:
A) Everyone grows up.
B) You don’t like being small.
C) You are queer.
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The parents of one student, Darian and Ted Knobelsdorf, sent a photocopy of the assignment to Global News.
The Principal of Magnetawan Central School Steve Krause told Global News that the test was taken from an old textbook which is no longer supposed to be used.
The teacher used the “traditional” definition of the word, Krause said noting that it means ‘odd or strange.’
Over the decades, the word ‘queer’ has generally come to be used to describe homosexual people.
The teacher, who would not speak to Global News, allegedly told the Knobelsdorf’s that she did not think anyone would be offended by the word.
Despite the school’s apology, the parents have decided to bus their grade 2 student roughly 70 kilometres away to a Catholic school.
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