Posted by:
blindguy
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Date: October 28, 2019 09:07PM
...and religious conservatives don't like it.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2019/05/10/california-is-overhauling-sex-education-guidance-schools-religious-conservatives-dont-like-it/From the article:
"California’s Board of Education is revamping the guidance it gives for teaching sex education from kindergarten through high school in public schools.
Even though the guidance is not mandatory, religious conservatives fought it all the way and said the subject should be taught at home.
Board members on Wednesday considered objections to explicit material that had been recommended for use and removed some of it. Concerns were expressed
that some of the material was too explicit or seemed to be endorsing specific sexual activity. Among the targets: a book titled “S.E.X.: The All-You-Need-to-Know
Sexuality Guide to Get You Through Your Teens and Twenties."
In the end, the panel voted to approve a broad framework for comprehensive sex education that it says is age-appropriate and important for young people
to know to stay healthy.
The board spent hours considering a
draft framework for health education
that was completed in April. It covers six subject areas: nutrition and physical activity; growth, development and sexual health; injury prevention and
safety; alcohol, tobacco and other drugs; mental, emotional and social health; and personal and community health. It is divided into grade groupings and
provides advisory language for each content area.
For sex education, the topic that generated opposition, the framework offers numerous subjects for discussion at each grade grouping, including:
list of 4 items
• Grades kindergarten through three: gender identity
• Grades four through six: sexual feelings, including masturbation
• Grades seven through eight: consent and sexual abuse
• Grades nine through 12: contraception and healthy sexual relationships, including advice for LGBTQ students
list end"
And another snippet about the opposition:
"Parents can exempt their children from sex education lessons. Still, religious conservatives have been fighting the new sex education guidance, with several
hundred protesting Wednesday at the Board of Education meeting. The Associated Press quoted a mother of six named Patricia Reyes as saying: “It’s just
scary what they are going to be teaching. It’s pornography. If this continues, I’m not sending them to school.”"
And one more quote from the article:
"According to EdSource,
conservative religious groups have been mobilizing parents to remove recommendations that deal with the sexual health of LGBTQ students and material aimed
at young children.
Hundreds of people attended
a public hearing in March in Sacramento and many stood to express objections to the Instructional Quality Commission, which advises the state board and
approved the new draft framework.
One woman, who identified herself as a “Christian soldier,” said: “This is something that is destroying our children. It will destroy our future children.”
Another woman read a Bible verse and said the draft framework is “straight from the pits of hell . . . Almighty God is going to judge all of us, rightfully.""
I remember very well when the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints financially supported an amendment against gay and lesbian rights in California back in 2008. It wouldn't surprise me if the LDS church took an active role against these sex education proposals, not only because of what it is trying to teach kids about LBGT rights but also what it is trying to teach kids and young adults about mastaurbation and healthy sexual activities.