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News of an Alberta education curriculum overhaul came as a surprise to mom Barbara Silva.

Organizer of Support Our Students, or SOS, with three elementary schoolchildren of her own, Silva said Alberta’s curriculum is ripe with opportunities to bring the province “into this century.

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“There’s lots of room to make it current, and make it relevant to where we are today.”

More time in play, changes to physical education standards, including more information on climate change and introducing consent and LGBTQ issues into the sex education curriculum, are all updates Silva would like to see.

“Education should be at the forefront, it should be responding, it should be leading,” she said Tuesday.

“We really hope SOS is part of the discussion, that we can sit down with the minister.”

News of the comprehensive curriculum review and revamp “unlike any seen in Alberta” was revealed Monday.

Education Minister David Eggen said every subject area in the K-12 curriculum will be reviewed and rewritten.