Parental Groups Concerned Alberta’s Revised School Content Standards Allow Sexually Explicit Text

Parental rights advocacy groups are raising concerns about Alberta’s updated standards for sexual content in school libraries, saying that while new restrictions on explicit sexual imagery are a step forward, the guidelines still allow students access to graphic written descriptions of sexual acts.

The province on Sept. 8 released its updated school library book selection guidelines, narrowing the focus to visual depictions of sexual acts and no longer applying the restrictions to written descriptions, as the previous guidelines did.