Connecting the dots between convicted child porn pervert and the new Ontario sex-ed curriculum

Convicted child-porn aficionado Ben Levin wasn't just another schmuck who fancied child porn. No, he was a dude who had a serious position of responsibility (I believe that's a "POR" in educational jargon) within the educational establishment. In fact, he was way up the totem pole; Deputy Minister of Education in the province of Ontario.

That's why I'm puzzled by the lack of attention to the connections between Mr. Levin and the new Ontario sex-ed curriculum, a curriculum that's generating a fair bit of controversy.  Frankly, I think a lot of that controversy is naive and misplaced. Those Campaign Life Coalition types seem completely unaware that their kids have had unlimited access to the hardest of hard-core porn since they first had internet access. You're getting riled up because the new curriculum is teaching about anal sex in grade seven?

Well, if you're a parent who got little Billy or Billy-Jean a smart-phone when they were in grade three, the ins and outs of annal sex are gonna be old news to them by grade seven!

But it does strike me that guys like Levin would be exactly the type of folks who would take a great deal of interest in having innumerable focus groups re: what age is the right age to teach the kiddies about the importance of lubrication...

Former Deputy Minister of Education guilty of child porn offences

Ben Levin was a rising star in the elite world of top-drawer education consultants.

Yup, you could say he was a real up-and-comer! In fact, Levin had come up through the ranks of those education consultants I was discussing just the other day, and made it to the very top. He was an acknowledged international expert on the education of children.

Guess that's over... but you have to wonder about his legal strategy. Given his long history in education, you would have expected him to play the Pete Townshend defence and claim he was "doing research."