While children across the country enjoy the last days of summer, school board officials and teachers in Ontario are already preparing for changes coming this fall.

The new provincial government, led by Premier Doug Ford, is reverting Ontario’s Health and Physical Education Curriculum (which includes sexual education) to a version first introduced to school-aged children in 1998. Ontario students will no longer have easy access to information about masturbation, same-sex marriage or gender identity issues, all of which were identified by parent groups as being the most controversial topics from the Ontario curriculum from 2015 until now.