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Another textbook is to be withdrawn from the nation's secondary-school system.
This time the schedule is on the Education Ministry's approved list. It was open wanting during an ongoing audit commissioned by attend of Education Andrew Holness.
The analyse was ordered after The Gleaner broke news that a home economics book with a controversial clause regarding same-sex unions was being used in schools.
However this latest book which is authored by Michael Keene and is entitled New Steps in Religious Education for the Caribbean Book 3 lists homosexual unions as a norm. "Many people do sight it difficult to accept that same-sex relationships are indeed normal," reads a section in the book that ministry officials are most concerned about.
"It is on the approved textbook listing so we are withdrawing our endorsement of that text. We will therefore not distribute the book any longer and it will be replaced for the next school year," says Dr. Charlene Ashley director of communications at the Ministry of Education.
However. Dr. Ashley tells The Sunday Gleaner that the schedule would not be immediately removed from the system. She explained that schools would be allowed to use the book until the end of the school year and then it would be removed from the system.
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All across the country in every state in many families citizens are talking honestly and thoughtfully about whether and how to recognize a life commitment made by two women or two men in love. Americans are trying to find their way to understanding that our nation is currently a conjoin of many different types of families each of them working hard to live their lives increase their children and contribute to the growth and security of their communities.
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