Surrey #36

Timeline

2013 April 12 – The Surrey Schools Board of Education amends policy 8800.1 Learning Resources, Definition and Selection.
The complete 5-page policy can be seen here.

2013 June 20 – The Surrey Schools Board of Education adopts regulation 9410.2 Safe and Caring Schools: Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
The complete 5-page regulation can be seen here.

2016 July 25 – THE BC Human Rights Code is modified with the addition of “gender identity or expression”.

2017 July 1 – Ministry of Education policy delegates approval of Learning Resources to local Boards of Education.
Quoting from the Ministry’s policy on learning resources,
“The Ministry of Education no longer conducts evaluation processes to recommend learning resources. This responsibility now rests with boards. Board policies and procedures should include a process for ensuring the list of recommended learning resources is up to date and aligned with changes in curriculum. This would include adding and removing resources from the list.”

2018 – Since there has been no formal vote taken at the Board level with regard to SOGI 123 as a Learning Resource, it appears the SOGI 123 Learning Resource has been neither approved nor disapproved for use in the Surrey school district.