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Following a major educational announcement by the Ontario government Tuesday, teachers in Ottawa and across the province will head back into classrooms this fall under a directive that they teach a 20-year-old version of the sex-ed curriculum — or else.

Premier Doug Ford vowed to take action if teachers are found bucking the sex-ed curriculum rollback and has enlisted parents in the crackdown.

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The province’s largest teachers’ unions had previously vowed to defend educators who persist in teaching the more modern curriculum instituted by the former Liberal government in 2015 after the Tories vowed earlier this summer to scrap it.

A government news release Wednesday said the province has set up a website where parents can report any teacher who is “jeopardizing their child’s education by deliberately ignoring Ontario’s curriculum.”

While broad consultations on education reforms will be launched in September, the government said, teachers should use a “revised interim curriculum” for the 2018-19 school year, which includes the 1998 version of the sex-ed curriculum, last used in 2014.