South Dakotan’s Against Common Core recently published this alarming information about National Sexuality Education Standards. I don’t expect Utah to adopt this program by choice anytime soon, but when you accept federal money, with federal strings, you sometimes get federal programs shoved down your throat whether you want them or not. By Utah aligning to Common Core and taking federal money for education, it is entirely feasible that this program written by Planned Parenthood could at some point become a national requirement for such states. You can bet there are those in Common Core circles who are banking on it, for the common good of the children of course.
Here’s a link to the original and the content of it below.
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OK, so I just discovered this little secret of Common Core.
And before you say it is not a part of Common Core, because it is “A Special Publication of the Journal of School Health,” please go to page 6 where it says, “The National Sexuality Education Standards were further informed by the work of the CDC’s Health Education Curriculum Analysis Tool(HECAT)3; existing state and international education standards that include sexual health content; the Guidelines for Comprehensive Sexuality Education: Kindergarten – 12th Grade; and the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts and Mathematics, recently adopted by most states.”
And before you say, “We won’t allow it in our schools. We will go to the school board.” Local control is gone. On page 6, “Specifically, the National Sexuality Education Standards were developed to address the inconsistent implementation of sexuality education nationwide and the limited time allocated to teaching the topic.” The whole idea behind Common Core is to create universal standards.
I wanted to know who would think they know what information was appropriate and at what age my child should learn this “appropriate” information. Here’s what I found out about a few of those on the Advisory Committee. I’ll let you research the rest.
Nora Gelperin, was the recipient of the national 2010 Mary Lee Tatum Award from the Association of Planned Parenthood Leaders in Education!
http://answer.rutgers.edu/page/nora_award
Deb Hauser has been with Advocates for Youth for almost 20 years, first as Director of the Support Center for School-based Health Care, then as Executive Vice President. In January 2012, Deb became the organization’s fourth President and Executive Director, representing Advocates with the media, funders and colleagues organizations and speaking nationally and internationally about young people’s rights to honest sexual health information, confidential sexual health services and equitable social and economic opportunities.
http://www.advocatesforyouth.org/about-us/advocates-staff
Robert McGarry, EdD
Director of Training and Curriculum Development
Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN)
Cynthia Lam, Sex, Etc. Teen Editorial Staff
Been writing for Sex, Etc since she was 14, she’s now 17.
Then I wanted to know what information these people thought was age-appropriate. Oh my goodness. Do you remember in the movie “Kindergarten Cop”, when the little boy walks up to Arnold Schwarzenegger and says, “Boys have a penis and girls have a vagina.”? I don’t know about you, but I was shocked and found it funny at the same time. I remember thinking, ‘boy, his parents have shared a lot of information with him.’ Parents will no longer have the right to decide what is developmentally and age appropriate for their individual child.
On page 12 it says
“By the end of 2nd grade, students should be able to: Use proper names for body parts, including male and female anatomy.”
On page 14 it says:
“By the end of 5th grade, students should be able to: Describe male and female reproductive systems including body parts and their functions. Identify medically-accurate information about female and male reproductive anatomy. Define sexual orientation as the romantic attraction of an individual to someone of the same gender or a different gender.”
On page 9 under “Guiding Values and Principles”
“Instruction by qualified sexuality education teachers is essential for student achievement.”
Wouldn’t that be the parents? Who decides who is “qualified”?
“Students need opportunities to engage in cooperative and active (I underlined those two words) learning strategies, and sufficient time must be allocated for students to practice (I underlined that one too) skills relating to sexuality education.”
What does that mean? Something like this?
And I just have to highlight this principle:
Students need multiple opportunities and a variety of assessment strategies to determine their achievement of the sexuality education standards and performance.
I know this is already in many of our schools. This is sex-education on steroids. You can download your own copy of the standards here.
I have only highlighted a very few of the items I, as a mom, find objectionable. You may not have any issues with the standards, principles and skills that children will be taught as a part of the Common Core Standards. I’m not asking you to agree with me. After all these are only minimum standards. Page 6 – Outline what, based on research and extensive professional expertise, are the minimum, essential content and skills for sexuality education K–12 given student needs, limited teacher preparation and typically available time and resources. I just want you to be aware of the details.
If Common Core is so wonderful, why did they bring it in the back door without legislation? Education we are paying for, without representation.
Check back, as I am researching the companies that are creating curriculum to meet these standards.
I recently typed up a blog post about the dumbing down of the Saxon Math curriculum. The whole education establishment needs to be privatized and divorced from Federal Money: http://jennyhatch.com/2013/04/30/uncommon-lore-the-original-saxon-math-curriculum-math-a-firm-foundation-to-build-a-homeschool-on/
Obamacare is already funding Planned Parenthood “education”.
Utah may not be able to escape from our children being educated by Planned Parenthood. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/03/27/obamacare-funnels-75-million-to-planned-parenthood-to-push-sex-on-kids/
Utah may not be able to escape Planned Parenthood “education”. Obamacare has set aside $75 million for Planned Parenthood to teach in schools.
http://www.lifenews.com/2013/03/27/obamacare-funnels-75-million-to-planned-parenthood-to-push-sex-on-kids/
I do not agree with children being taught sex ed until 6th grade. This is the time of maturing for a good majority of children as well as when they begin to explore and question their bodies. I do however, prefer for my child to grow up with as much knowledge on how to protect herself as best as possible in order to enable her to have as fulfilling of a life as she can. Abstinence is a silly outdated method and honestly, reports of how effective it is are not good. Again, k-5 grade is much too early but believing that children grow up to never have sex is quite contradictory when our society also tells them they are to go to college, get married, and start a family.
Abstinence is not a silly or outdated method. It does just what it says. Teaching children to wait until marriage to have sexual relations is healthier, promotes realistic relationships, and follows God’s commandments. Thou shalt not commit adultery is not outdated. Abstinence doesn’t teach children never to have sex, it teaches them to wait until marriage.
I so agree with you, I speak God’s blessing on you, may he meet your every need and bless you beyond all you have ever seen for speaking out the truth.
Well how about you give the world your plan for sex education and minimizing the skyrocketing teen pregnancy rates. Why did our ancestors have less of a pregnancy problem than we do? I will give you a hint: it has nothing to do with education. Kids today know bucketloads more about sex than our predecessors. You might feel that the idea of abstinence is silly but it sure worked back then. Morality has gone in the trashcan, look at the world now. Sadly this generation screws like rabbits and when that baby is born, MY tax dollars go into taking care of it and its mothers welfare. I would gladly go back to live antiquity where people lived free and happy lives and practiced abstinence.
Couldn’t agree more. The prevailing mentality that “kids will inevitably have sex” ignores the existence of choice and free will. Parents need to hold their children to firm standards, not just give up on moral development because it’s too much of a ‘challenge’.
Here’s a sample of the modern parenting mentality:
Oh, we can’t stop our children from being promiscuous, so let them screw… but teach them to do it ‘safely’
Oh, we can’t stop our children from drinking/shooting up drugs, so let them get wasted… but in our house under our ‘supervision’
Oh, we can’t motivate our children to perform in school, so let them neglect their studies… but dumb down the grading system so everyone passes for ‘showing up’
Oh, we can’t stop our children from disrespecting authority figures, so let them run their mouths… but better yet, we’ll defend their indecency as a ‘right to challenge authority’
Oh, we can’t stop our children from running with a bad crowd, so let them vandalize and steal… but decriminalize ‘small’ offenses so those bastard policemen can’t touch our poor little babies
And so on……
And people find it shocking that teenage pregnancies, divorces, drug use, crime, and a number of other social ills have skyrocketed in the last 60 years??