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Mandated sex ed in WA
Comprehensive sex education (CSE), what is it? The Washington Legislature is pushing CSE as a public school mandated sex education program for kids from kindergarten to 12th grade. Mutual masturbation, condom and oral dam use will be taught in class, supposedly in an age-appropriate, culturally neutral, scientific way. Why? Have parents been beating down the legislators’ and school board doors demanding CSE? Have the schools made the programs easily accessible so parents can see what will be taught? Have there been public meetings where school board members answered questions regarding CSE?
For the Methow Valley School District the answer is “NO”. No open discussion prior to Planned Parenthood’s Get Real CSE program being accepted into our school district. Access to the 600+ page Get Real program is difficult. (It should be posted on the school district website, or at least the Teacher’s Guide should be.) The only CSE school board meeting was a “listen only” meeting. No answers have been provided since.
Public school sex education is becoming a vehicle for teaching gender fluid ideology and indoctrinating children into sexual behaviors far beyond “age appropriate” or “culturally neutral”.
Parents, wake up.
Chrystal Perrow
Winthrop