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Quebec Government Has Begun Same-Sex Parenting Inclusiveness Training for Primary School Teachers
"In Quebec, there are thousands of children living in a same-sex family"
By Patrick B. Craine
QUEBEC, Quebec, August 11, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The Quebec Ministry of Education has funded the development and implementation of training for primary school teachers promoting inclusiveness for families with same-sex parents, and will be implementing it in Montreal and Quebec City, reports Le Journal de Quebec.
Estimated to have cost the province between $50,000 and $80,000, the training involves a three-hour session for teachers on location, with a kit of materials including videos, brochures, and activity books for students. According to Manon Boivin of la Coalition des familles homoparentales (the 'Coalition of Same-Sex Families'), who is training the teachers, "It's almost a recipe book with all the ingredients to make of our schools schools that are inclusive and more open."
Boivin, who herself has a 5-year-old daughter and raises her with her same-sex partner, commented: "Often, in the face of homophobic insults, teachers do not know what to say....We will make an offensive to inform the schools."
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