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While the look, language and many of the technical details of the 19-year-old program have been revised, the central ideas remain untouched. Students are still led through a process over their first eight years in school of coming to appreciate how their lives in their own families prove the Ireneaus quote, 鈥淭he glory of God is Man fully alive,鈥� said the authors, education consultants, teachers and bishops who have produced and taught the new program.

After 19 years in classrooms, the old Fully Alive textbooks have begun to look more than a little dated, said Sylvia Santin, lead author of both the first and second editions. The normal life span of a school text book is seven or eight years.

鈥淚t was dated. It looked dated,鈥� said Santin. 鈥淲e asked how congruent it was with where 13- and 14-year-olds are today.鈥�

{sidebar id=2}Particularly when it comes to sexuality, one of five themes the text books cover, there are issues that simply weren鈥檛 there in 1988, said Santin. AIDS was not much discussed in the late 1980s, Internet pornography and Internet luring in chat rooms were hardly imagined, media portrayals of sexuality in the 500-channel universe were not an issue and gay marriage had yet to make its way through Canada鱿鱼视频app courts.

Beyond finding images and language to deal with the complexities of family life in the 21st century, Ontario鱿鱼视频app bishops have also decided to harness the Internet to keep parents involved in the program, said Alexandria-Cornwall Bishop Paul-Andre Durocher. The Ontario Conference of Catholic Bishops鈥� web site (www.occb.on.ca) is under revision this summer, and with its relaunch in the fall the site will have a section devoted to informing parents about Fully Alive.

The web site will reinforce the parents鈥� role as primary educators of their children, and make it easier for the lessons children receive in school to become part of life at home, said Durocher. The web site replaces a parents鈥� book which accompanied the first edition of the text book and 鈥渘ever really took off,鈥� according to the bishop.

People who call Fully Alive a sex education text book aren鈥檛 looking very closely at the book or the overall program, said University of Western Ontario faculty of education lecturer Joe Bezzina. Bezzina prepares student teachers to teach Fully Alive as part of teaching religion to four- to 14-year-olds in Catholic elementary schools.

鈥淭wenty per cent of the whole religion program is family life, and of that only one-fifth deals with created sexual, male and female,鈥� Bezzina said. 鈥淚t鱿鱼视频app really only about four per cent of the whole religion program which deals with the sex part of it. That鱿鱼视频app why we don鈥檛 call it a sex-ed course.鈥�

Classroom veteran Betty Brush said her experience has been that even the most hesitant parents are won over when they see what is actually taught in Fully Alive.

鈥淔or parents, what they don鈥檛 know makes them fearful,鈥� Brush said.

In 17 years teaching Junior Kindergarten to Grade 8 in and around Windsor, Brush said she has rarely run into opposition from parents.

鈥淚 don鈥檛 see the parents questioning as a bad thing. I don鈥檛 see it as an attack on me as a teacher,鈥� she said.

But knowing the program comes directly from all the bishops of Ontario gives Brush confidence that what she鱿鱼视频app teaching encapsulates Catholic values.

鈥淎s a teacher, as a mother, as a grandmother I fully support the program,鈥� she said.

Durocher is quick to emphasize that every single page of all eight text books has been reviewed and approved by every bishop in Ontario.

People who complain that teaching children about sex compromises their innocence haven鈥檛 thought through the other channels by which children might be learning about sex.

鈥淭heir innocence is threatened by the society in which we live,鈥� Durocher said. 鈥淭he only way to preserve their innocence is to overcome the ignorance which makes them vulnerable.鈥�

The updated text book will be rolled out two grades per year over the next three years.