Some San Diego Unified School District students got another day off from classes on Tuesday, but not for a holiday.
Their parents are upset over what they say is an inappropriate sex education curriculum. They chose to keep their kids out of school and made their feelings known at a rally outside district headquarters Tuesday afternoon.
The “opt out” day was promoted on a Facebook page, “Concerned Parents of San Diego.” A post on the page asked parents to keep their kids out of school Tuesday as a way to send a message to the district.
Officials have defended the lesson plan saying that it’s backed by the CDC and is age appropriate. Parents have called it “graphic and inappropriate” and say it is “too much, too soon” for sixth graders.
The curriculum also includes a Sexually Transmitted Infections game and male reproductive system crossword puzzle.
“We’re going to ask them to suspend this new curriculum because it’s not a curriculum for the adolescent brain, it’s an adult curriculum,” said mom Angela Beaver.
Lessons for sixth and eighth grade and high school students were implemented last year, and the district provided an opt-out letter. But stated out of tens of thousands of students, only 196 or less than 1 percent chose to opt out.
Back in February concerned parents also rallied outside the district asking the board to change the curriculum but the district did not respond.
“It was by the community for the community, so we know that this is absolutely appropriate for our students,” said Isabella McNeil from SDUSD. “And we give parents the right to decide whether they want their child to participate or not.”
An online petition has also been created calling to suspend the curriculum.
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Have the protesting parents proposed an alternative curriculum? As I understand it, youths learn about ‘birds and bees’ younger than before. Assuming perpetual innocence is not realistic.
Assuming that presenting material promoting vile, pro deviant sexual activity to children will result in well adjusted teens and adults is not only unrealistic, but dangerous.
The ultimate goal of this radical sex education agenda is to indoctrinate and normalize homosexual behavior. These parents have every right to protest this diabolical agenda. The devil himself is behind this insanity whose goal is to attack the souls of these innocent children. This radical sex agenda has spread across Canada already even though parents there protest this agenda as well. The only remedy for this radical sex agenda is to home school your children so that you know exactly what is being taught to them. America protect the innocence of your children and don’t give up. Jesus Christ King of Kings Lord of Lords True God and True Man is coming back soon like a thief in the night. Pray America Pray. Pray Pray Pray!
So visual aids for children have to be pixelized for adult viewing on decency grounds. How revealing . . . sort of.
A provision to “opt out.”
And what does this for to the child whose parents choose “opt out” but stigmatize that child, make him the butt of ridicul, bullying for his peers.
And is not “bullying” claimed to be the reason for school shootings?
What a pile of dung our culture is in!!!
When parents keep their kids home for ONE day, the only thing they accomplish is to make themselves feel better — that they are doing “something”. They send their kids back the next day and nothing has changed. “Sec-ed” is infused through out all subjects to once degree or another. It used to be called “Values Clarification”.