California’s New Sex-Ed Curriculum is About to Roll Out…What You Need to Know

   (2) To provide pupils with the knowledge and skills they need to develop healthy attitudes concerning adolescent growth and  development, body image, gender, sexual orientation, relationships, marriage, and family.

Section 6 (an amendment to original section 51933 of the Education Code), sub-secion F:

Section 14 (an amendment to original Section 51938 of the Education Code), sub-section B, part 4:

Section 15 (an amendment to original Section 51939 of the Education Code), sub-section B:

Read the bill. I mean READ IT. All of it. Yes, it’s boring legalese but every word matters. Bureaucracies often depend on you not being fully informed of your rights. And often the people “at the bottom” aren’t fully aware of your rights either. So know what the law says. If you go to a district meeting or a one at your school, print it out and bring it with you. Highlight the relevant parts. Knowledge is your greatest weapon.

2.Make noise.

Lots and lots and lots of noise. A lot of people think that calling and writing their representatives is futile, but you’d be shocked to know just how effective it is. Most lawmakers (particularly in CA) only have the goal of preserving their jobs. Everything they do is geared toward winning reelection. When their constituents get cranky, they pay attention…and so few people actually call and write anymore that just a few hundred voices go a very long way to making your representative and governor think twice about proceeding with something that seems unpopular. Here’s a link where you can enter your zip code to find your representative. Bother your school district reps as well.

3.Protest

There is a growing international movement to protest the creep of disturbing and graphic sexual “education” into our schools. On Monday, April 23rd many will participate in a national “sit-out”. You can find more information about it by navigating to the Sex Ed Sit-Out website.

4.If you choose a walk-out or sit-out, do NOT allow the school to record it as an excused absence.

The two things politicians care about the most are money and bad press. The reason your public school demands you call to excuse a child’s absence is because they lose state and federal dollars on every unexcused absence. You are never under any legal obligation to “ask permission” for your child to miss school for any reason. If you really want to make an impact, hit them where it hurts. Don’t let anyone make you feel guilty about it, either. I could go on and on about the public school funding racket in this state and elsewhere (and I have) and how much money is being sucked up at the top before it even reaches your classroom. Suffice to say, you and your child alone are not responsible for funding an entire education system. Put your child first and ignore the background noise.

5.Don’t get complacent.

Bills like this one aren’t passed because there’s an overabundance of parents begging and screaming for more education about lubricants and sex toys for their 5th graders. They get passed because lobbyist groups spend a lot of time and money to forward what they see as important to their agenda. Don’t think that just because there’s an “opt-out” policy for any curriculum that the fight stops there. Trust me when I say there are already scores of lawyers and activists working to figure out how to force you to keep your child in school for this, all in the name of the “common good”. The people who would opt out in the first place are the very people the bill is targeting. You can’t change the landscape of morality if you can’t force the “bigots” to change their morality.

6.Votes have consequences.

When our transgender bathroom laws passed in this state, a friend texted me in a panic. She wanted to know what she could do. She was from a traditional church family and had no idea this was even happening. By the time she understood, it was too late. She couldn’t do anything about it. She was a reflexive voter…she voted the same way her family and community had voted forever. She never thought to actually look into what the candidates she was voting for were promising, what they believed, or what they supported. KNOW WHO YOU’RE VOTING FOR. Forget party politics. It means nothing in the state of California anyway at this point. As time-consuming as it is, think about the issues that matter to you and then do a little poking around to see how the candidates line up. Don’t vote for someone who is going to force your daughter to share a public bathroom with a grown man just because they happen to reside in the party you always vote for.

7.Spread the word.

Share this information with all of your friends, your family. Email it to the other parents in your classroom. This law is already on our books and it got there because too many of us are just taking for granted that our lawmakers have our best interests at heart. I can’t speak for other states, but I can say that in the state of California they most certainly do not. Money from lobbyists and something to stick in their next campaign ads are the two biggest motivations on our political landscape. That won’t change until good people like you start saying, “No more!”