Norfolk Virginia School Board Eyeing Planned Parenthood’s Sex-Ed Program
School districts have ended the Get Real program after parents protested.
What is in Virginia’s water?
We all know about Loudoun County School Board’s troubles. Now we have Norfolk Public School Board eyeing Planned Parenthood’s sex-ed program:
Norfolk Public Schools hosted public forums earlier this month to discuss the new proposed curriculum, which, according to local reports, the school said would provide medically-accurate, age-appropriate and evidence-based family life education and comprehensive sex education.
However, some parents say the curriculum titled “Get Real,” developed by Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts, is too explicit in details related oral sex, masturbation and in defining terms like gender identity, gender expression, cisgender, transgender, questioning and ally.
Sylvia Bryant, a Virginia parent who has had multiple children educated in the Norfolk public school system since 1995, says the curriculum is “too inappropriate” and would be damaging to child development, and advocates that those topics should be left to parents, or should more closely involve parental oversight.
“Children at this age are in their shy development stage, and when you encourage them out of this normal development, and you force them into the next level, before they are mentally prepared, you’ve disrupted the normal growth of a child,” Bryant said in an interview with Fox News Digital.
The website with information about the program is vague because of course. Planned Parenthood emphasizes parental involvement and permission.
But I found something from October 2022 in New Hampshire’s Manchester and Sullivan County. Three Executive Council Republicans had problems with the sex-ed program, especially about the parents’ involvement and definitions:
Both [Joe Kenney and David Wheeler] said they have concerns about parents’ involvement after they give permission for their child to participate. Reading from the high school curriculum, Wheeler quoted its definition of confidentiality: “Confidentiality means that personal information will not be shared outside the classroom with students, parents, other teachers.”
Wheeler said he also opposes the program’s definition of abstinence and what he feels is a permissive view of minors engaged in sexual activity.
“It’s only abstaining from anything that can get you pregnant,” Wheeler said. “They are not saying you should abstain from oral sex, anal sex, girl on girl, or boy on boy. This needs to be combined with informed consent. The parent needs to know that they are teaching that you can have sex whether you are ready or not and we’re not going to tell the parents.”
In 2018, North Carolina’s Cumberland County school board’s Curriculum Committee voted to discontinue the Get Real program. Many parents objected to the program:
Wayne Dorman and Rob Wingo were among those holding signs opposing the program outside the building. Dorman said he was there because of his three grandchildren in the school system, while Wingo said he has three children in the schools.
“This book shouldn’t be in the nation, much less the school system,” Dorman said. “If this is going to be talked about, it should be between parents and their kids.”
Wingo said middle school students should not be exposed to the material in the program.
“It’s morally, ethically and spiritually wrong on all accounts,” he said.
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Haven’t we learned anything? If it comes from Planned Parenthood, it’s toxic.
If you’re just as disgusted as I am, then let’s go and make a public comments on the third Wednesday this May 2023 when they’re allowing public comment! I will be there! If you wish to exchange contact information I will be happy to do so!
Whatever is in the Virginia water, it seems to make voters pull the Dem lever over and over. It is difficult to imagine a more in-your-face move than partnering with Planned Parenthood. The Norfolk Board clearly believes there will be no meaningful consequences. I think the Norfolk parents should get ready to take some lumps from the local drag queens. Norfolk sounds like a good place to leave.
If you’re just as disgusted as I am, then let’s go and make a public comments on the third Wednesday this May 2023 when they’re allowing public comment! I will be there! If you wish to exchange contact information I will be happy to do so!
Yet another advertisement for school choice.
If you’re just as disgusted as I am, then let’s go and make a public comments on the third Wednesday this May 2023 when they’re allowing public comment! I will be there! If you wish to exchange contact information I will be happy to do so!
“What is in Virginia’s water?”
Washington, DC. Heaven’s sake, look at a map!
Virginia used to be a nice, normal state.
Then it started rotting… from the 14th Street Bridge down.
If you’re just as disgusted as I am, then let’s go and make a public comments on the third Wednesday this May 2023 when they’re allowing public comment! I will be there! If you wish to exchange contact information I will be happy to do so!
Hell, just teaching kids the mechanics of reproduction is weird enough and causes some controversy. Adults that actively plan to approach kids and begin a discussion about anal masturbation are absolute ghouls.
What a pathetic shame that society has to fight a bastion of evil from the school system.
If you could only convince these school boards that reading, writing and math were twisted forms of the most aberrant, forbidden sexual practices we would have a generation of budding geniuses on our hands.
Maybe we can encourage Planned Parenthood to focus on Chinese schools? Send them there.
IMO the reason this sort of thing keeps repeating is the naivety of the community. They want to demonstrate that they are not like those icky, intolerant rubes. Couple that with the way most of the weird agenda is marketed. The purveyors of these ideological things wrap them in neutral and/or nice sounding language.
The over credentialed but less than wise people who want to virtue signal can’t help themselves. They are drawn to support these things like a moth to a flame. B/C the populist center/right opposes these things then based on a surface level understanding these folks instinctively support them. The purveyors know their audience is full of marks and they fully exploit their desire to be seen as ‘better than and different from’ the intolerant populist center/right.