There are growing concerns with the proposed changes to Alberta's human rights legislation.
Amendments to Bill 44 has many components but the most contentious change focuses on allowing parents to pull their kids from classroom discussions about religion, sexuality or sexual orientation.
Some question why this clause needs to be in human rights legislation when it should be covered by the School Act.
"We are doing nobody any favours by dragging the Human Rights Commission into disputes between parents and the schools," says Janet Keeping, the president of the Sheldon Chumir Foundation.
The School Act currently allows parents to withdraw their child from a religious curriculum but does not cover sex education.
The minister responsible for Bill 44, Lindsay Blackett, says the parental opt-out clause was created after he received suggestions from a number of people including constituents and members of caucus.
Educators worry that a code of silence could be the unintended result of the changes.
"If teachers are worried about suffering some negative consequence from talking about these subjects then the easiest thing would be to not talk about them at all. And that would be a loss not just for the students who were taken out of the discussions but for every student," says Sinclair MacRae from Mount Royal College.
Some parents CTV News spoke to say they like the idea of having another authority to take their concerns to. "I think it's nice to have the power to say 'I'd like to do that in the home, I'd like to discuss religion or homosexuality in the home,'" says one parent.
Bill 44 goes to second reading on Tuesday.
