"Teacher prompts and student responses are included for most expectations to help clarify the requirements and suggest the intended depth and level of complexity of the expectations. These are illustrations only, not requirements."
第三次出现,在每个年级的大纲开篇,反映了作者的真实用意,是这样说的: “注意:教师的提示(Teacher prompts)在下面的大纲中用来表明要达到的学习内容 - 即,学生应该了解的概念和掌握的技能 - 这与特定的大纲期望互相连在一起。”
"Note: The teacher prompts and student responses contained in this curriculum are provided to illustrate the intended learning – the concepts that students should understand and the skills they are to acquire – in connection with the particular expectation."
也就是说,手淫是快乐的等等,是学生“应该了解的概念和掌握的技能”。
再回头看大纲的出台背景:同性恋者的现任安省省长在2010年是安省的教育厅长,当时企图出台这个性大纲,由于遭到家长的强烈反对,最终被取消了。这次卷土重来,为了不重蹈旧辙,采取一定策略来减少阻力是必要的。