A California school district will not allow parents to opt their children out of classes containing LGBTQ content, figures or historical references, emails show.
Murrieta School District says parents have the ability to opt their children out of comprehensive sexual health, but parents are still not able to opt their children out of LGBTQ content when taught in other subjects, according to emails obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation.
The district recently came under fire after a video from the conservative group Our Watch exposed progressive sex education programs in California teaching children about oral sex, masturbation, role-playing and more.
The video depicts ACLU staff attorney Ruth Dawson, according to Our Watch, instructing teachers on how to help students obtain abortions without parental consent.
Murrieta School District’s Monica Gutierrez of the Public Information Office sent a July 29 email warning parents that misinformation was being spread throughout the district. President of Our Watch, Pastor Tim Thompson, said the misinformation Gutierrez was referring to was the Our Watch video and subsequent media coverage.
“I am writing to you this morning because the inaccuracies and false information regarding comprehensive sexual health education is once again propagating our community,” Gutierrez wrote in an email to a group she referred to as “key communicators” obtained by the DCNF. Gutierrez attached a pamphlet to the email, intended to distill rumors previously circulating in the community.
Gutierrez told Thompson it was not possible for parents to opt their children out of LGBTQ content.
“We write in response to your request that the Murrieta Valley Unified School District (“District”) mandate opt-out notifications in grades K-12 from discussions that mention LGBTQ content, figures, or historical references,” Gutierrez wrote in a March 1 letter.
Gutierrez pointed out the California Healthy Youth Act, otherwise known as AB-329, mandates teachers and curricula “affirmatively recognize different sexual orientations, be inclusive of same-sex relationships, and teach students about gender, gender identity and gender expression.”
“For all sexual health education, instruction and materials used in the District’s sexual health and HIV education must be age appropriate, medically accurate, and appropriate for use with students of all races, genders, sexual orientations, and ethnic and cultural backgrounds, English learners, and students with disabilities,” she continued.
“In practice, this means that the above-mentioned criteria must be fused throughout the entirety of the curriculum,” Gutierrez added.
She said parents can opt their children out of the sex education courses but emphasized that California Healthy Youth Act has caused LGBTQ content to be included throughout a variety of courses and cannot reasonably allow parents to opt their children out of courses such as history.
Thompson told the DCNF he was moved to share pictures of Gutierrez’s emails on Facebook after the DCNF covered the Our Watch video.
“After your article stirred everything up, they told everyone the video was all lies,” he said. “That is when I decided to let everyone see the letter.”
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I agree there is a fine line on what [and at what age] should and should not be included in school ‘sex ed’ instruction. Reasonable people can disagree where that line should be.
The worst thing is to ignore the matter. Then the source of [mis]information is often the playground and equally unknowing classmates. LGBTQs exist. Children need to learn the facts just as they learn about the facts regarding ‘birds and bees’
Are you serious Mike? It is the “parents” who should be the ones who decide what their children should be exposed to with sex education. Parental rights must take priority. Schools should not be involved in matters which concern the family. We need to get back to the basics and stop the liberal anti-life and homosexual fascist takeover of our schools.
To mike m — Sex education should never include oral sex, masturbation, role-playing since these are not part of the biology of the human body. This is filth and it needs to be defined as such.
I think this is why they want to bring in so many immigrants to fill the public schools. Immigrant parents often have no idea what is being taught in our public schools and are often lied to as to what is going on. I know. I have had some tell me how appalled they are when they get here as to what is going on in our public schools, and they feel helpless to anything about it.
Correction to last sentence: “and they feel helpless to do anything about it.”
It seems the issue is more about the inclusion of various LGBTQ people in many aspects of the curriculum rather than specific sexual acts. However, unfortunately children, even young children, can now access sexually explicit material online. This accessibility makes it difficult for parents to teach their children about human sexuality in an appropriate and holy manner. Innocence must be protected.
I don’t think either “sex ed.,” or the history of sexual deviance, belongs in the schools. Maybe just one class is okay, on “how a child is born,” from a biological viewpoint– and no info. on the sex act. Parents must teach their kids the “facts of life,” along with good morals. A dad has a “talk” with his sons, and a mom has a “talk” with her daughters. Good parents today, have rules about computer use and social life.
Well said.
That there are kids that experience same sex attraction is not controversial. Why, how and for how long are open questions that progressives refuse to engage for lack of coherent answers. What is controversial is the idea that progressive adults in education leadership that, once becoming aware of these kids, then groom them for becoming sexually active.
To be LGBTQ is to be sexually active. A person with SSA that is celibate is a complete non-sequitur to them because it is in acting out sexually that they find validation from others. No sex, no validation.
Chardin– I have talked to a few gay Catholics who are very devout, and committed to Christ– and to a life of service to Our Lord, prayer, and celibacy.
I really believe that whatever personal questions or problems you have about your life— including “LGBT” issues– is a strictly personal and private matter! It certainly does not belong in the classroom! Kids should have good counselors available, for their needs!