Rob Ford (open Rob Ford's policard)’s children could soon be among thousands staying home from school in protest of Ontario’s new sexual education curriculum, if his comments in a new interview are any indication.

In the YouTube interview with broadcaster Ezra Levant posted Thursday, the former Toronto mayor said the controversial curriculum makes him “sick.”

“I have two kids . . . My one in Grade 2 and my other one in Grade 4 should not be talking about what anal sex is or what a blowjob is,” said the former mayor, now city councillor for Ward 2 in Etobicoke. “This is what they’re teaching these kids. I’m sorry, that makes me sick. I told my kids, if they start talking like that — walk out.”

On Monday, almost 35,000 students were absent in Toronto. Organizers of the boycott say the curriculum is too explicit, touching on topics like multiple genders, masturbation and anal sex.

“It’s for the parents to teach them about that at the appropriate time, but not when they’re Grade 2 and not when they’re Grade 4,” Ford continued in his interview with Levant’s online conservative channel The Rebel. “They should be teaching how to read and write arithmetic. It makes me sick to my stomach.”

Those behind the curriculum have said fears may be based on misunderstandings.

Anal and oral sex, for instance, are not taught — though the phrase “anal intercourse” is provided as an example in Grade 7, which may be used as an optional prompt but isn’t expected as part of the curriculum. It would also be mentioned in the context of delaying sexual activity.