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“This is clearly inappropriate,” he said on Tuesday. “It crosses a line.”

Eric Mackey saw the poster, pinned to a bulletin board at the back of the classroom, earlier this year during a routine visit to the classroom.

“I stood there and looked at it and thought, ‘This is great,’” said Mr. Mackey who has two children at the school and serves as the co-chair of the school council.

“I personally am very comfortable with this poster on the wall. And my children are comfortable with it,” he said, adding that when the poster was put up in October, it was accompanied with a discussion where children were told that “if anybody has a hard time with this, it will be taken down.”

According to Mr. Mackey, a survey was sent home at the beginning of the school year that asked parents to indicate what hot topics they hoped the teacher would cover.

‘If you want to talk to a 12-year-old, or a 13-year-old, or a 14-year-old, then talk to them about real stuff’

“High-risk” behaviour, like sex and drug-use, was one of the most popular responses.

“As co-chair of the school council, I’ve never been informed that there was an issue with it. No teacher, no child, no parent has said a word about it. I guess I’m a little surprised that all of a sudden everybody’s outraged,” he said.

“We’re talking about teenagers that use that sort of language. You could package it nicely, and you could teach it in a way where you’re talking about the birds and the bees,

“But if you want to talk to a 12-year-old, or a 13-year-old, or a 14-year-old, then talk to them about real stuff. Use the word F–k. Use the word ‘blowjob.’ That’s what they’re talking about.”