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SINGAPORE, July 18 — Hwa Chong Institution (HCI) has reprimanded a staff member and suspended him from delivering further sexuality education lessons after ...

The spokesperson said: “The staff has since been reprimanded for delivering content without the school’s approval and suspended from delivering further sexuality education lessons. The presentation slide, titled “Community Health”, made claims such as “one in 15 homosexuals is a pedophile” and “58 per cent of homosexuals have problems with intestinal worms”. “We are aware of the incident which took place during a presentation on sexuality where a staff member incorporated content outside the scope of the Ministry of Education’s (MOE) Sexuality Education curriculum into his slides,” said a HCI spokesperson.

SINGAPORE: Hwa Chong Institution (HCI) has reprimanded a staff member who made discriminatory claims against the LGBTQ community during a presentation on ...

“The staff has since been reprimanded for delivering content without the school’s approval and suspended from delivering further sexuality education lessons.” He has also been suspended from delivering further sexuality education lessons. The Hwa Chong Institution employee has also been suspended from delivering sexuality education lessons.

A sexuality education talk by a Hwa Chong Institution (HCI) staff member drew plenty of flak from netizens after a slide deck that contained discriminatory ...

The staff member who gave the presentation had used content outside the scope of the Ministry of Education's (MOE) Sexuality Education curriculum in his slides, the spokesperson said, adding that the staff member has since been reprimanded and suspended from giving such lessons. Responding to the Straits Times' queries on Monday (July 18), a spokesperson from HCI shared that the school had met their students to "address their concerns". Photos of slides from that presentation were uploaded on social media platform Reddit on Saturday (July 16) with some slides showing statistics of what the LGBT community are "so proud of".

Sexuality education is critical in teaching kids about topics that are still difficult to broach in households here. Many students will get their sexuality ...

It involved a staff member incorporating content outside the scope of the Education Ministry’s curriculum. According to a statement by Hwa Chong Institution (HCI), the school is aware of the incident that took place during a presentation on sexuality. The staff member who gave the presentation has been reprimanded and suspended from giving sexuality education talks in future, the school said in a statement on Monday (18 Jul).

A prestigious school facing a major backlash over a homophobic assembly has suspended the teacher responsible.

“The views presented were the individual staff’s personal perspectives and not representative of the position of the school or MOE,” it added. “We are aware of the incident which took place during a presentation on sexuality where a staff member incorporated content outside the scope of the Ministry of Education’s (MOE) Sexuality Education curriculum into his slides,” the secular, all-boys school said in a statement. The Hwa Chong Institution today said it disciplined a staff member who showed a sex ed class of 16-year-old students a slideshow of fabricated statistics smearing the LGBT community as well as a “conversion therapy” video.

After slides from a controversial presentation containing misinformation about members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) ...

Students deserve access to science-based sexuality education that is free from personal beliefs and biases. “The views presented were the individual staff’s personal perspectives and not representative of the position of the school or MOE.” After slides from a controversial presentation containing misinformation about members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) community presented to Secondary 4 students were spread online, Hwa Chong Institution (HCI) said on Monday (Jul 18) that the counsellor who made the presentation has been suspended.

A Hwa Chong Institution (HCI) staff member who gave a presentation on sexuality containing discriminatory content to students has been reprimanded and ...

It said schools in Singapore have repeatedly evaded accountability on matters of sexuality. In a recording of his addressed obtained by The Straits Times, Pang acknowledged students’ concerns about the presentation and told them the school counsellor’s views were personal and not representative of the school’s position. The presentation content was not approved by the school and his views do not represent the school’s position, said a HCI spokesman in response to queries on Monday (July 18).