Parental rights and faith-based organizations from around California will be gathering at the state capitol next week to support a bill that prevents elementary schools from hiding comprehensive sex education lessons from parents.
Senator Mike Morrell authored SB 673 after hearing that some schools were disrespecting parental rights by making it very difficult for parents to review the actual sex-ed curriculum being used in elementary classes.
A rally on the capitol steps and a hearing before the Senate Education Committee are scheduled for SB 673 Wednesday, January 15.
“Parents have the right to know what lessons are being covered in the classroom,” said Senator Mike Morrell (R-Rancho Cucamonga).
“We want them to be engaged and involved in the education of their children. This sensitive material needs to be transparent.”
SB 673 has three main provisions:
It requires school districts that teach elementary-age comprehensive sexual health and HIV prevention to put that curriculum online for easy and convenient parental review.
It restores the right of parents of elementary-age students (TK-6th grade) to opt their children into comprehensive sexual health and HIV prevention education courses, rather than passively opt their children out.
It requires comprehensive sexual health and HIV lessons to be age-appropriate and medically accurate, as is required of middle school and high school curricula.
The above comes from a Jan. 8 release from Press Califonria.
For more, contact Greg Burt at
gregb@californiafamily.org.
Parents have a right and duty to know what their children are being taught. This applies to Catholic and other private schools as well. And, all of us, as taxpayers, have a right to know how our tax dollars are being spent. As the Second Vatican Council’s Declaration on Christian Education states, parents are the primary and principal educators of their children. (Gravissimum educationis #3) Archbishop Cordileone and the Archdiocese of San Francisco are supporting this transparency bill. So should all of us.
Informed parents of Rocklin have done great work on the proposed and implemented programs for sex ed , social studies and health.
informedparentsofrocklin.org.
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I do not think California should even have the immoral, irresponsible “sex-ed” bill, SB 673, at all! And which ignorant, irresponsible parents of young children, TK-6–a SHOCKINGLY young age group!– are “opting their children in,” for this filth?? A tremendous evil, for the continued destruction, by the immoral liberal-leftists, of Marriage and Family, in our Nation– and promotion of date rape, premarital sex, abortion, pornography, “shack-ups,” prostitution, human trafficking, and the horrific “LGBT”agenda!
I was reading recently, that today, children are tragically exposed to pornography, from a very early age! Can’t believe it! And so many men are pornography-addicts, today, that this has been declared a major national health crisis! Of course– this is also a major national morality crisis! Little children are INNOCENT!! Keep them SAFE from all evils– and forcefully condemn all sexual sins, in our society! NO “sex-ed,” in the schools!