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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