The American Center for Law and Justice is stepping up its fight to protect kids in New York schools from pornography that leftist librarians are insisting on adding to their collections. The organization has filed a petition in New York state court asking to overturn a decision from state education officials providing those books to children. "As we explain in our petition, both federal and state laws emphasize the important role and compelling interest of public schools in protecting children from exposure to lewd and obscene content. Public schools and boards of education owe a duty of care to both parents and students to ensure that the curriculum and other materials provided to students are free of pornography and are age appropriate," the ACLJ reported.

With little national attention, the conservative movement has racked up a remarkable series of victories on one of their long-held policy dreams.
For decades, activists on the right have pushed to steer state money toward alternatives to the public school system. Typically, they proposed vouchers, in which the state would pay part or all of a child’s private school tuition.

But despite all this effort, conservatives could only get limited and targeted voucher programs into place — vouchers for low-income families, or those in low-performing school districts, or for students with disabilities.

Even in the reddest states, they fell short of their true Holy Grail: public money funding private school tuition, for all who want it, including middle-class and wealthy families.
Very suddenly, that has changed. It started with West Virginia in 2021 and Arizona in 2022, and then continued with a flood this year — Iowa, Utah, Arkansas, Florida, Oklahoma, Ohio, and Indiana. More may follow. “It’s happening!” Corey DeAngelis, a conservative activist who describes himself as a “school choice evangelist,” regularly tweets, joyfully chronicling each new victory.

A watchdog group has reported that nearly 6,000 public schools across the United States have implemented some sort of policy that prohibits the schools from informing parents when their children decide to “change” their gender or gender identity.

As reported by the New York Post, the list compiled by Parents Defending Education (PDE) covers 5,904 schools across 168 districts, which accounts for at least 3.2 million students in total. Such policies forbid staff from telling parents about their children’s gender identity without the student’s permission, even if the children are underaged. The policies know no boundaries when it comes to geography, demographics, or financial status, with such policies in place in rural and urban areas alike, as well as rich and poor neighborhoods.

Included on the list are two of the largest school districts in the country, Chicago Public Schools (CPS) and Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD). Other major cities with school districts on the list include Washington D.C., San Francisco, Seattle, Portland, and Baltimore. States that are affected by this policies range from Alaska and Idaho to California and New York.

“... Everything in her statement is false,” responded Kilgannon.  She went on to give an example of how when discussing alcohol and drugs, children are strongly warned about the health effects and told to avoid the addictive substances.  “But when it comes to sex, seemingly normal adults are willing to accept that it’s inevitable for children to act out sexually, and we as adults should teach them how,” Kilgannon added. “That is not acceptable, not healthy for children, and has nothing to do with ‘building bodily autonomy.’” This kind of sexualized education is its own form of assault and the only thing it prevents is the formation of a mentally, physically, emotionally, and spiritually healthy child.” 

Unknown to the public, many states enlist national LGBT organizations to instruct elementary school teachers how to push transgenderism (both “gender” ideology and transgender behaviors) and homosexuality to very young children. In Washington State (and many other locales), this is done through state-run “professional development” sessions that teachers attend to keep their certification.

Here we have a report from a MassResistance mother who attended and confronted the instructors with some hard questions. Their answers were very offensive and revealed their anti-family radicalism ...

Washington state school board director to teach sexual 'pleasure' class to 9-year-olds at sex shop
The classes will be held at a local sex shop called WinkWink
Fox News, July 5, 2022

A Washington state school board director who owns a sex shop is making headlines after announcing she will teach sex education classes for children as young as 9 on topics such as "sexual anatomy for pleasure" and "safer sex practices for all kinds of sexual activities."

"The class for 9- to 12-year-olds is an introduction to topics related to relationships, puberty, bodies, and sexuality. We focus on what makes healthy vs. unhealthy friendships and romantic relationships, the science of how puberty works, consent and personal boundaries, defining ‘sex’, and discussing why people may or may not choose to engage in sexual activities," Jenn Mason, owner of sex shop WinkWink in Bellingham and school board director for the Bellingham School District, told KTTH radio host Jason Rantz ...

The Camas School District is in the process of updating its sexual education curriculum to comply with a new state law requiring all Washington public schools to provide comprehensive sexual health education by the 2022-23 school year.

Camas Assistant Superintendent Lisa Greseth told Camas School Board members in late April that research behind a new sexual education law passed by Washington state legislators in 2020 — the Healthy Youth Act, which requires public schools to provide comprehensive sexual health education by the 2022-23 school year — shows that offering students “accurate, complete, developmentally appropriate information on sexuality, including risk-reduction strategies and (information about) contraceptives, helps young people take steps to protect their health, delaying sex, using contraception and being monogamous.”

Greseth said the district allows parents the right to opt their child out of any or all sexual education lessons.

“Parents can opt students out of a single lesson, a group of lessons or an entire unit,” Greseth told school board members during their April 25 meeting.

Camas also has a policy of notifying families 30 days in advance of their student receiving sexual health education lessons. Parents and guardians are able to preview the materials and opt their student out of the lesson or unit, Greseth said.

America is an exceptionally good country

The first question is, why study civics? As the classical authors teach us, living under laws is natural for human beings. After all, we can think in different ways than other creatures, and we can talk. Whatever we can think, we can say. That makes a natural closeness among us, and the political community is an expression of that closeness. For that reason alone, civics is one of those subjects that the educated person must know.

The second reason is that politics is important. Great harm is done by bad laws, and great good by good laws. We are citizens. We have an obligation to our fellow citizens and an interest for ourselves to make the laws as good as they can be.

Masking Children
Child Protection League, July 2021

Child Protection League recognizes that COVID 19 is a real and highly transmissible virus. It has been 18 months since the first cases of COVID19 were diagnosed in the United States and our families and children have experienced great suffering. Yet, like everyone else, we thought by now reliable data would have been collected, analyzed, and reviewed by our top medical professionals and organizations
so that coherent and logical health policies could be developed moving forward.

If there’s one good thing that came out of school closures, it’s that parents finally had a window into what their kids were being exposed to in the classroom — and many were horrified by what they saw.
That’s exactly what happened in Carmel, Indiana, where parents learned the full scope of the perversion being peddled to their children.
The school libraries there are filled with storybooks pushing radical transgender ideology, lessons on masturbation for middle schoolers, and novels with explicit sexual scenes including one describing a bloody rape.

Critical Theory & Critical Pedagogy Part I of III: The Pedagogy of Discomfort
Native Liberty, Apr 2, 2021

Very insightful YouTube Video.

Commentary by Liv Finne / Washington Policy Center
The elected board of the Chehalis School District has responded to the concerns of parents and passed a resolution banning the teaching of controversial Critical Race Theory in public school classrooms.
The new policy, passed June 15, provides that schools will not teach that some students are inherently good and others are inherently bad based on their outward appearance.  Further, district officials declared that political ideology has no place in public schools and that teachers will educate students, not tell them what to think or what opinions to hold.

The "We'll convert your children" song by the San Francisco Gay Men's Choir.

Critical Race Theory Opponents Win Board Elections at Nation’s Top High School
Candidates opposed woke curriculum and eliminating merit-based admissions tests
Washington Free Beacon, June 11, 2021

A group of anti-critical race theory candidates this week won seats on the governing body of the nation’s top high school after campaigning against the school’s racially driven admissions practices.
As part of the district’s push for diversity and inclusion, Fairfax County Public Schools scrapped the admissions test for Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in October, and two months later, adopted a quota system to boost black and Hispanic enrollment numbers. A slate of four candidates opposed to the school’s recent embrace of "equity" won seats on Thomas Jefferson’s Parent Teacher Student Association.

An English teacher at a $52,000-a-year private school in Englewood, New Jersey has quit her job over critical race theory lessons she has branded racist. 
Dana Stangel-Plowe, who taught at the Dwight-Englewood School in Bergen County, accused the school of creating a 'hostile culture of conformity and fear' in her resignation letter on Tuesday. 
Stangel-Plowe said Head of School Rodney De Jarnett told the entire faculty that he would fire everyone if he could to replace them with people of color. She also accused the school of segregating teachers by their skin color - and said students were also made to segregate themselves 'within the oppressor or oppressed group.' 

Mom in Carmel NY fights back against teaching critical race theory as board tries to tone police her
YouTube, Jun 3, 2021

Opinion: State superintendent document says top priority for spending federal COVID money will be Critical Race Theory-type programs, not student learning
Clark Co Today, May 26, 2021

Last week I reported that the State Superintendent had proposed a list of favored bureaucratic projects, like “equity and anti-racist training,” “inclusionary practices,” “trauma-informed practices,” and “social and emotional learning” – all aspects of controversial Critical Race Training sessions – to be funded by federal COVID funds (ESSER I, II and III) meant for special needs children.  Parents of special needs children objected and said the money should be used for recovery and compensatory services to help students, as the federal government intended.

See also Washington Policy Center

June 2020

Camas White Fragility Training

Below, Camas School District offers a class to their employees called Understanding White Fragility:

From Swanson, Kari L.

Sent on behalf of Wendy Wick and Chrissie Woodruff

Hello Camas Staff,

Here is information about a PD opportunity presented by Camas teachers, Wendy Wick and Chrissie Woodruff. The maximum number of participants is 15. Register through pdEnroller.

Camas School District has White Fragility books available for check out. If you would like one, please contact Kari Swanson.

Please contact Wendy Wick or Chrissie Woodruff with any questions. Thank you!

VAI1529 Understanding White Fragility: An exploration based on the work of Robin DiAngelo

Dates

Monday June 29 2020 10:00 AM 12:00 PM

Monday July 6 2020 10:00 AM 12:00 PM

Monday July 13 2020 10:00 AM 12:00 PM

https://www.pdenroller.org//clockhours/proposals/105473  Cached

Additional Information:

Here's a supporting article on white fragility: Everything you need to know about white fragility - https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/white-fragility-definition

White people are racists because they are white – Tucker Rips “Poisonous Garbage” White Fragility https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3XWZeTQVyo

Robin DiAngelo on “White Fragility” on PBS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6O27_yBQ8Qc

Ben Shapiro: 7 Reasons Why "White Fragility" is the Worst Book Ever https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWgnX84KD7A&feature=emb_title

Ben Shapiro Destroys the Concept of White Privilege https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrxZRuL65wQ

Contact information in case you are concerned  http://www.camas.wednet.edu/contact/have-a-question/contact-us/ -

 Emails to the school board in case you're motivated to address  http://www.camas.wednet.edu/about-csd/school-board/bios/ -.

This survey is not a one-time rejection. It is a pattern. Since 2016, parents in many districts have been objecting to latest learning requirements from OSPI. Some schools have chosen not to teach anything about sexuality/relationships to avoid the community disapproval. In the 2019 legislative session, a mandatory K-12 Sex Education bill was proposed. It was tabled until this year because approximately 5,000 citizens in two different hearings objected. Then in the budget, a study of the effectiveness of CSE was commissioned. The Health Impact study declared that there was no evidence that CSE education would reduce teen pregnancies or sexually transmitted infections. The next step was to hand pick a committee from across the state to show support for CSE that would help pass the mandatory sex ed in the upcoming session. This committee did a survey, sent to the members of the researched CSE study and the members of the committee. Planned Parenthood paid for Facebook ads targeted at youth and school families. However, 58% said, “NO” to CSE. But it didn’t stop there. Currently, OSPI and a team of selected public-school employees are writing a curriculum to facilitate the mandated K-12 requirement for CSE.

Feb 2019

Sex Ed Curriculum Reviews
by Southwest Washington Education (K-12)

Family Life And Sexual Health (FLASH) Curriculum Review

Sept 2018
The War on Children: The Comprehensive Sexuality Education Agenda, 10 min 

Opponents had spoken out against some of the content in the FLASH program selected by the school board

BATTLE GROUND — UPDATE 7/11/18 — Per Rita Sanders with Battle Ground School District, these are the elements of the FLASH curriculum that the board was set to consider adopting:

1. Introduction
2. Reproductive System
3. Pregnancy
6. Healthy Relationships
7. Coercion and Consent (including coercion and consent handout)
10. Birth Control Methods (including fact sheets)
11. Preventing HIV and Other STDs
12. Condoms to Prevent Pregnancy, HIV and Other STDs
13. Testing for HIV & Other STDs

That means the lessons on Sexual Orientation & Gender Identity, as well as Unwinding Gender Stereotypes, would not have been part of the Battle Ground FLASH program. The district believes those topics, along with abstinence education and online safety, are already adequately addressed in existing curriculum. As previously mentioned, the district will re-examine other curriculum options over the Fall, and take more public feedback, in order to select a new health curriculum that complies with state law.

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Donald Trump Says He Will Be ‘Biggest Cheerleader for School Choice’

Breitbart.com

Republican nominee Donald Trump says that, if elected president, he will make school choice the center of his education plan and will use $20 billion to establish a block grant to fund school choice for children living in low-income areas.

Public schools are “our government-run monopoly” that has “trapped millions of African-American and Hispanic youth in failing government schools that deny them the opportunity to join the ladder of American success,” Trump said in a speech at the Cleveland Arts and Social Sciences Academy on Thursday.

He will be “the nation’s biggest cheerleader for school choice,” Trump said, adding that he supports merit pay for teachers “so that we reward great teachers – instead of the failed tenure system that rewards bad teachers and punishes good ones.”

Trump said:

I want every single inner city child in America who is today trapped in a failing school to have the freedom – the civil right – to attend the school of their choice. This includes private schools, traditional public schools, magnet schools and charter schools which must be included in any definition of school choice.

Our government spends more than enough money to easily pay for this initiative – with billions left over. It’s simply a matter of putting students first, not the education bureaucracy.

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Over the years some high schools have tried to ban things like soda. And yet they are going in another direction. That schools are having questionable sex education programs and on-campus clinics isn’t enough anymore.

One high school in Seattle is now implanting intrauterine devices (IUD), as well as other forms of birth control. The IUD is known as a long acting reversible contraception, and may even act as an abortifacient. So, a young teen in Seattle can’t get a coke at her high school, but she can have a device implanted into her uterus, which can unknowingly kill her unborn child. Or, if she uses another method, she can increase her chances of health risks for herself, especially if using a new method. Birth control has even been the tragic cause of death for some young women.

The high school, Chief Sealth International, a public school, began offering the devices in 2010, made possible by a Medicaid program known as Take Charge and a non-profit, Neighborcare.

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Dec 2014

Homeschool and the Battle for our Children
By Faith and Freedom Foundation

Is Planned Parenthood's 'Torture Sex' Advice Making Its Way Into the Classroom?

From christianpost.com

In the latest installment of "SexEd: Planned Parenthood's Dangerous Sex Advice for Kids," an Oregon Planned Parenthood counselor is shown telling a 15-year-old girl, who's under the legal age of consent, to watch porn, go to a sex shop, and experiment with bondage and hitting with her boyfriend.

Live Action released its fourth undercover video last week, with others soon to follow, that shows a Planned Parenthood counselor and nurse giving BDSM (bondage and discipline/dominance and submission/sadism and masochism) or "torture sex" advice to a girl whom she believes is only 15.

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March 2014

"It's Perfectly Normal" Textbook is Not Normal--It's Pornographic
By Gary Randall, Faith and Freedom

Russ has a child at Covington Middle School in Evergreen School District in Vancouver, Washington.

This week he became aware that the textbook, "It's Perfectly Normal," is available to his middle school daughter.

He is angry.

And he should be.

The textbook has been around for about 20 years, but each school year parents often become aware of it for the first time. 

Public schools use it---or have it available.

Planned Parenthood promotes and places it.

Most school libraries have it.

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Mar. 2013

Court stuns educators with approval of vouchers
Program lets parents decide where children will attend class
by Alyssa Farah

In a landmark victory for school choice, the Colorado Court of Appeals surprised educators in the state by affirming the constitutionality of a Douglas County voucher program that allocates money for students who attend “private school partners” rather than government-run schools.

The voucher program came under attack when the organization Taxpayers for Public Education sued the Douglas County School District. The suit challenged the constitutionality of state funding for a program that gave money to parents for their children’s attendance at private religious schools.

In defense of school choice, Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys and Colorado Springs attorney Stuart Lark filed a friend-of-the-court brief on behalf of the Association of Christian Schools International, the Catholic Diocese of Colorado Springs, Shepherd of the Hills Christian School, Southeast Christian School and Valor Christian High School.

Condoms for free at 22 city schools
The district is installing dispensers over winter break at high schools with the highest rates of STDs.