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TORONTO — Teachers who use a now-repealed sex-education curriculum when students return to school next month will face consequences, Ontario Premier Doug Ford warned on Wednesday as he invited parents to anonymously report their concerns about education to his government using a website critics dubbed a “snitch line.”

Ford also announced broad consultations on education reforms to be launched in September, but said that until a new sex-ed document is drafted, teachers should use a “revised interim curriculum” his Progressive Conservative government has posted online.

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“We will not tolerate anybody using our children as pawns for grandstanding and political games,” Ford said in a news release. “Make no mistake, if we find somebody failing to do their job, we will act.”

The warning drew the scorn of the province’s largest teachers’ unions, which have vowed to defend educators who continue to use the modernized version of the sex-ed curriculum updated under the previous Liberal government in 2015.