Concerned parents have successfully fought against the implementation of a controversial new sex education program for elementary school children.
After a marathon meeting, with testimonies and discussion stretching until 2:30 AM Thursday, California’s Fremont Unified School District board voted against the controversial sex ed curriculum.
What had so many parents concerned is that the new program, known as the “Three R’s: Rights, Respect, Responsibility,” would have taught elementary school students about sexual orientation, gender identity and rape.
The school district now finds itself at odds with California state law––the Healthy Youth Act, enacted in 2016––which mandates the teaching of those topics, and more, to students in grades 4-6.
While the controversial program was voted down for elementary school students, the school board voted to adopt it for grades 7 through 9.
“There’s a difference between educational and explicit. The way this is written, it is explicit,” said Vijay Ghanta, parent of a second-grader, according to mercurynews.com.
“It makes it seem like having a sexual relationship at that age is OK. It is not…You make it look like it is very normal. It is not normal at that age.”
Full story at LifeSiteNews.
God bless them for speaking out and protecting their children and grandchildren, and they were not all Catholics or even Christians.
The caption of the picture is at odds with the text of the story.l The text says 4-6 proposal was voted down while 7-9 was adopted. Caption seems to say a single proposal was adopted, 3-2.
mike m, I think what was meant in the article, is that the Board of Education had a”3-2″ vote on the issue. The filthy, corrupt, immoral sex-ed program was dumped for grades 4-6, but approved for grades 7-9!! I don’t think sex-ed should be taught in today’s irresponsible American schools— with abortion and gay “marriage” legalized, and wide acceptance of immoral “lifestyles.” We need a total return to Christ, for America!
The New 3Rs is a Planned Parenthood program launched in Oregon. Archived: https://web.archive.org/web/20170509180907/https://www.plannedparenthood.org/planned-parenthood-southwestern-oregon/local-training-education/new-3rs-rights-respect-responsibilty
Everyone with a child in public school needs to know the philosophy behind sexuality training in our schools. Advocates for Youth have sexuality lesson plans online.”Sexual Development Through The Life Cycle.” https://www.advocatesforyouth.org/publications/201-lessons
WE Catholics need to do more than just object tp this Filth
We need to offer up alternative curriculum that both meets the Education component – and removes the pandering to evil aspects of the pogrom
I Volunteer mu services – anybody else up for the challenge?
One of the things I object to is co ed sex education. Some public schools have both boys and girls in the science class at the same time when these things are discussed in high school. That breaks down the natural modesty of young people. Girls cannot not asked questions about how to avoid intimate contact before marriage, and the same for boy..Most Christian schools deal with this issue quite well by having girls in one class and boys in another.
Actually, such classes took place in some elementary schools as far back as 2004.
Co ed sex ed classes that is.
Hyper sexualized middle schoolers in public school are the norm. Ask any family counselor and they’ll tell you that, for example, oral sex is not in the least unusual between kids this age. Some do “get it” but some believe in doubling down and ramping up programs which just feed the fire. School board members are either catastrophically clueless, believe that hypersexuality should simply be normalized or think that it can be fixed through curricula that will not just normalized this horrible situation but accelerate it.
This is a hollow victory. Sex is infused throughout all subject areas in one way or another. The only way for parents to have any hope of protecting their kids is to take them away from the indoctrinators. Yes, I know that’s a pie in the sky suggestion. Or, is it?
Teachers and instructional assistants used to be able to choose what they wanted to teach or not teach in public schools, and parents could choose what teacher they wanted for their child, but the newer materials make it harder or near impossible to do that. One cannot just stick an offensive book into the back of ones file cabinet and not use it and use a more appropriate one. Many people from other countries have no idea what is going on in our schools and the far left uses that to their advantage. Beware of one size fits all.
Yeah for NORMAL people!!!
Great for parents to take action to not expose children to pornography and immorality.