Interview Capstone Questions

Career Teachers + P.E Teachers Interview Questions:

1. Do you/ have you taught Sex Education, or do you bring someone in to teach it?
2. In your opinion who should teach sex education and what class should it be taught in?
3. Should sex education be mandatory for all grades? What age should sex education begin?
4. Do you feel that the curriculum for sex education is clear/ too flexible?
5. How can the government or district better support sex education?
6. Have any of you used the tea video?
7. Should Boys and girls be split up for discussions, and are the groups brought back together, and
responses shared?
8. Have you taken any workshops or programs that help you teach sex education?
9. Have you as a teacher ever felt like this was out of your element/ what do you need to learn?
10. **What are some of your own biases when it comes to sex education?
11. If a student came to you for help, would you know how to help them? Do you know the community
supports available to students? (Example; Birth Control Supports, Woman Becomes Pregnant,
Sexual Identity question, sexually Harassments)

Career Teachers + P.E Teachers

Interview With: Mrs. Lapierre

1. Do you/ have you taught Sex Education, or do you bring someone in to teach it?
-Both: I bring someone in to teach Sex Ed and I talk about healthy relationships.
2. In your opinion who should teach sex education and what class should it be taught in?
-Hybrid style; included in a life skills course (Changing CLE/CLC to life connections)
-Schools should be responsible for the connection between outside educators.
-School needs to bring in someone who includes all students from a medical standpoint, meaning free of personal
bias. Ex. Planned parenthood or nurses can’t leave anything out and they need to have a neutral platform.
3. Should sex education be mandatory for all grades? What age should sex education begin?
-Yes, it should be mandatory for all grades, and can start in kindergarten making sure the curriculum fits the
description of that age group.
4. Do you feel that the curriculum for sex education is clear/ too flexible?
-Yes, it is too broad there needs to be a clear direction/ indicator about what it is that is being taught, and how it
should be taught.
5. How can the government or district better support sex education?
-Through clarity, training, connection to recourses, and funding (because it is expensive to bring people in).
6. Have any of you used the tea video?
-Grade 11’s and 12’s are too old for this video.
-I used it in grade 8, 9 and 10.
Additional points through conversation:
-The White Hatter came and did a presentation on pornography and nudes.
-I stand for the harm reduction model, Let’s teach kids how to be safe because we know that they are going to do it
regardless.
7. Should Boys and girls be split up for discussions, and are the groups brought back together, and
responses shared?
-I have overall mixed feelings about this because on one end it opens room for discussion, but on the other it
segregates groups by having to choose between only two genders.
-how to people identify, where do they go?
- Sex ed should not be segregated, education should be intergraded. Boys need lean about girls, and girls need to
learn about boys.
-Girls might not ask questions if there are boys in the room.
-Sex ed is not just one day, it needs to be more then that.
8. Have you taken any workshops or programs that help you teach sex education?
-I have not taken anything that was provided through the school.
-For my PDP I chose to learn more about sexual identity, and healthy relationships.
-I could benefit from a training day.
-We need to create a common goal with people who don’t know about Sex Education. For example, I had a teacher
what ciz gender meant, therefore we need our teaching to be inclusive.
-Teachers are scared to say something with parents, we also need something that protects teachers.
Have you as a teacher ever felt like this was out of your element/ what do you need to learn?
-Yes and no, because I teach healthy relationship, I am comfortable with it and know what it looks like. However, I
do differ to professionals about the physical/ medical part because I don’t feel comfortable teaching from a medical
standpoint.
-I would like to learn more about how we make this teaching more inclusive and how to we serve/ help kids that
don’t fit into the box, what resources do they need?
-I wouldn’t know what to do if a kid was pregnant. Do you have to legally tell a parent? It’s okay that Parents don’t
know, but teachers do? Do we pass kids off to Counsellors? Do I have to report this? Where is the line? These are
kids, Do I have a right to know what they are telling me?
-There is also a cultural barrier which makes it difficult to have the conversation. It doesn’t get talked about as
much, and it’s complicated which is why it often gets brushed to the side.
9. **What are some of your own biases when it comes to sex education?
-I think that this is one of my least biased places as I don’t practice any religion or go to church.
-If anything, my bias is that it should be taught from a harm reduction standpoint. We must treat these kids like they
are adults. Is this considered too far open, as many parents will disagree.
10. If a student came to you for help, would you know how to help them? Do you know the community
supports available to students? (Example; Birth Control Supports, Woman Becomes Pregnant, Sexual
Identity question, sexually Harassments)
-Not entirely, I could give recourses and the knowledge I have.
-I don’t think that it is my place to advise a kid to do something, instead we can give recourses (Ex. SHIFT).
Interview With: Lacroix

1. Do you/ have you taught Sex Education, or do you bring someone in to teach it?
-I have taught it personally, now I normally bring someone in to teach it. In grade 8 I taught it, as the curriculum
was very detailed.
-In the past I have used Trinity Western nurses and then I opened up the floor, and we talked even more. I found
when the floor was open for discussion some questions were awkward, or difficult to answer. (Ex. Like will drinking
pineapple will change the taste of your semen?)
2. In your opinion who should teach sex education and what class should it be taught in?
-I think it should be taught by people who are trained, like nurses or medical professionals because they know the
latest information, which is important when everything is changing all the time.
-Other organizations do an amazing job talking about consent, emotions, and impacts of sexual assault.
-Talking about sexual assault can be triggering to talk about in a class, thus it should be done by professionals. -
According to the B.C curriculum Sex Ed is just included in the P.E curriculum. In the past it has also been included
in careers, because we know that the information was not getting to students in P.E. The principal then asked the
careers wing to help, so we started bringing in outside help like SHIFT.
-The challenge with other companies is that it is political, meaning it costs a lot of money and isn’t operated on good
faith.
3. Should sex education be mandatory for all grades? What age should sex education begin?
-Should start at day one in the kindergarten curriculum.
-For sure taught in grade 9, because it seems sexually assaulted rates are getting higher each year.
-We need to start the conversation before high-school and big discussions on consent and respect and teach girls
how to be safe (Ex. like what to do in a situation your uncomfortable).
-We need more than just the mechanics.
4. Do you feel that the curriculum for sex education is clear/ too flexible?
-I think it needs to have some flexibility so it’s not a checklist of things to go from.
-The Sex ed curriculum doesn’t change every year so there needs to be flexibility so we are not just checking off
boxes, rather keeping up with the latest information.
5. How can the government or district better support sex education?
-Mandate sex education
-Old principal realized there is an issue, therefore he brought in shift
6. Have you used the tea video?
-Yes, for grade 8, grade 7 and grade 10.
-There would be a debrief on it and some role play situations and discussions.
-I used it more of a conversation starter.
7. Should Boys and girls be split up for discussions, and are the groups brought back together, and
responses shared?
-I’ve done together and split up but when they are split, they are then brought back together.
-Something splitting up can be difficult, because of different genders. Although people can be brought together for
discussion but ask intimate questions separate.
-Different perspectives need to be shared, this applies across the board to other genders and identities, we don’t want
to single anybody out. We need to have a general conversation about Sex Education and have respect for differences
and celebrate them.
-As a teacher we need to try and show that we are trying to be inclusive and learn new things.
8. Have you taken any workshops or programs that help you teach sex education?
-I did in Ontario, and then people in the district came and taught the same program a long time ago. (2014)
-There is no other subject in the school where teachers don’t have to update their training, for example they go to
workshops.
-Should we take it like an IB type philosophy with training?
-The school district should provide a list of resources that the school can use for Sex Education.
-Each department gets 1 200 a year they can spend on whatever they need, however it normally goes to technology
for capstone.
-The school paid for children of the street.
- The district got a hold of a video and said they couldn’t play it because it was too triggering, therefore they don’t
want to talk about it at all even though this was for an anti- bullying lesson.
-Things can be squashed from a higher level at any time because people don’t want bad publicity.
-This whole thing is so much more then sex education.
-My point; in order to create change we need to try some different things.
-The education varies from school to school.
-If you’re doing your job property then teachers can create a bar that students want to reach.
9. Have you as a teacher ever felt like this was out of your element/ what do you need to learn?
- Yes, because I don’t want to offend anyone or say the wrong thing.
- I need to learn more about everything, learning should never stop as it is an ongoing process.
10. **What are some of your own biases when it comes to sex education?
-Harm reduction standpoint.
-Boundaries are important. Without boundaries this could get me in trouble because I want to help people who are
vulnerable. I want to Protect both men and woman.
-Kids in the school used to play a game like; If you want McDonalds, it will cost you a sexual act.
11. If a student came to you for help, would you know how to help them? Do you know the community
supports available to students? (Example; Birth Control Supports, Woman Becomes Pregnant, Sexual
Identity question, sexually Harassments)
Yes, and if I didn’t, I would be able to find out or ask someone.

Other Notes:
Kim harbor- district, you should interview her.

Interview With: Mr. Setterington

1. Do you/ have you taught Sex Education, or do you bring someone in to teach it?
-Normally I bring people in and talk about some of the things myself.
-When I was a kid, we went to sex ed classes and camps where we went away for a few days and did some self-
defence with the RCMP. It was almost like a brief summer camp. You get to choose what to learn about, and what
you want to participate in.
-I have never had an experienced teacher teach me about sex ed, and thus I feel more comfortable if I bring someone
in to teach it.
-I do think it should be covered in grades 9 and 10 focusing on the relationship’s aspect of it.
2. In your opinion who should teach sex education and what class should it be taught in?
-I don’t mind it being taught in either careers or physical education.
-Our careers department has developed a good program and revised the curriculum.
3. Should sex education be mandatory for all grades? What age should sex education begin?
-I think beginning the conversation early before puberty in some respects, as parents it’s important to be having
conversations with our own kids at an early level.
-I don’t think that grades 11 and 12 need to talk about sex education you it doesn’t need to be mandatory.
4. Do you feel that the curriculum for sex education is clear/ too flexible?
-The curriculum is vague.
-I would like things to be more structured or more descripted, although I would still get a professional to do it.
5. How can the government or district better support sex education?
-Find resources and professional development for the teachers.
-This way if students ask me, I don’t feel blindsided or uncomfortable.
6. Have any of you used the tea video?
-I watched it after you said something, but I will use it from now on.
7. Should Boys and girls be split up for discussions, and are the groups brought back together, and
responses shared?
-I think that depending on the dynamics of each class the splitting up could be beneficial because it gives each
gender the opportunity to feel safer to ask questions.
-I have done this before in the sex education camp with open ended questions, and then at the end everyone would
come back and share together.
8. Have you taken any workshops or programs that help you teach sex education?
-No, I haven’t done any workshops.
9. Have you as a teacher ever felt like this was out of your element/ what do you need to learn?
-Yes, it is out of my element
-I need to learn more about what the curriculum is asking for. Is just consent what healthy relationships are?
10. **What are some of your own biases when it comes to sex education?
-I think opinion could/ can be put into my bias’s and I am also going to be factual. However, if you ask me my
opinion, I will be honest. For example, I try to be open to other things a student is asking.
11. If a student came to you for help, would you know how to help them? Do you know the community
supports available to students? (Example; Birth Control Supports, Woman Becomes Pregnant,
Sexual Identity question, sexually Harassments)
-I don’t know specific resources, but I could direct them to the place that they need or be willing to look up things to
try and help them.

Interview With: Mr. Moore

1. Do you/ have you taught Sex Education, or do you bring someone in to teach it?
-I taught Sex Education at Vanguard inside of biology 12.
-Within Biology 12 I just taught the anatomy and physiology, not as much with relationships. (More focused on
science side of things)
2. In your opinion who should teach sex education and what class should it be taught in?
-I think that it should be taught in Science and P.E every year of High School
-Classes can include Life Sciences, Biology 12, and Specialized Science’s.
3. Should sex education be mandatory for all grades? What age should sex education begin?
-Sex Education should be mandatory for every grade at some level or on some degree.
-Sex Education should begin in kindergarten, until grade twelve, and meet the needs of students and their age.
4. Do you feel that the curriculum for sex education is clear/ too flexible?
-The curriculum is helpful if you’re comfortable with the topic have a good understanding of it, this is an example
when the flexible curriculum is good.
-The idea of teaching Sex Education when teachers have no experience is problematic on the surface, but it won’t
necessarily be fixed.
-We can’t say teacher can only teach what their degree is in or there wouldn’t be enough teachers to teach students.
5. How can the government or district better support sex education?
-There needs to be more workshops on pro-D days around sex education.
-The Challenge is that Sex Education has gotten very political and as a result the government/district won’t
implement it.
-The individuals in the district and government are very vocal towards these issues, creating opposite views, which
allows for nothing to get done or change.
-As a district it is all about wanting to check off the boxes, thus we are adding SOGI into the curriculum therefore
the district gets love from all angles. For examples, they are liked by those who don’t want sex education and then
those who do.
-There is a massive issue in all things on an individual level when people try to make the system better.
-Teachers must sign off on everything because there are so many people involved, and opposing views make it hard
to get anything done.
-People higher up in the district work extremally hard to have a small say that you end up accomplishing nothing.
6. Have any of you used the tea video?
-The tea video gives a good explanation video, but you need to have the context or a conversation afterwards.
7. Should Boys and girls be split up for discussions, and are the groups brought back together, and
responses shared?
-I don’t think we should ever split kids up; we should be able to share with both/ all students.
-We can find other ways to establish safety, other than splitting up students.
8. Have you taken any workshops or programs that help you teach sex education?
-No there are none provided here, but there might be some provided in Vancouver.
9. Have you as a teacher ever felt like this was out of your element/ what do you need to learn?
-For sure all the biological pieces I was confident with teaching, but the legal stuff was difficult for me as well as the
emotional side of things.
-How do we protect the teachers that are willing to take this step of teaching sex education.
-At the end of the day behind closed doors they can’t fire you for teaching sex education.
-Teachers need to be confident in what their doing. They need to be willing to just go for it and then deal with it
after.
10. **What are some of your own biases when it comes to sex education?
-A bias of mine could be that I might default to science too much, and same when teaching or talking about drugs
and what it can do to your body.
11. If a student came to you for help, would you know how to help them? Do you know the community
supports available to students? (Example; Birth Control Supports, Woman Becomes Pregnant,
Sexual Identity question, sexually Harassments)
-Yes, I do, or I would be able to figure it out.
-I don’t think something could come up to me that I haven’t seen before.

Other Points:
-We have all these people wanting to make change but the higher you go the further your away from the student.
How do you make a change when there are all these levels.

Student Survey Results & Questions