Last week by a vote of 10 to 1 Fairfax County School Board approved special rights for transgendered students allowing them to use whichever bathroom and locker room facility they choose. [read_more] Parents were not consulted about the policy change and hundreds attended the school board meeting to object. Their objections fell on deaf ears.
Elizabeth Schultz was the only board member to vote against the change. She felt the board had not studied what the results of this change might mean nor had they consulted with parents. She said,
I think it is a sad statement that we can allow those decisions to be entrenched in political ideology or vague understandings of the implications of such policies,” Ms. Schultz said. “We are an education system, and we didn’t do our homework. We took the final exam and signed our name at the bottom and took some guesses.”
Former Fairfax school board chairman Mychele Brickner spoke for many parents when she said,
This isn’t over, people are very disturbed by what just happened. … They didn’t take parents into account. The fact that they passed a motion like this and created an additional protected class in the policy, and then they are going to let people see later what this means, that’s ridiculous. That’s exactly what happened with Obamacare.”
Now Fairfax schools is taking this even further in their health classes. Their latest proposal is to teach children in grades 7 through 12 that gender is fluid and on a spectrum. The lessons teach that gender identity is something we identify over a lifetime and it is fluid. It appears we can be a special boy snowflake one day and be a special girl snowflake the next day, according to Fairfax County Public Schools. From FoxNews.com,
“The larger picture is this is really an attack on nature itself – the created order,” said Peter Sprigg of the Family Research Council.
“Human beings are created male and female. But the current transgender ideology goes way beyond that. They’re telling us you can be both genders, you can be no gender, you can be a gender that you make up for yourself. And we’re supposed to affirm all of it.”
Eight grade students will be taught that our individuality, “occurs over a lifetime and includes the component of sexual orientation and gender identity.” Does this mean when a woman gives birth the doctor will no longer declare the baby to be a boy or a girl since that must be determined over a lifetime?
From Fox News,
By tenth grade, they will be taught that one’s sexuality “develops throughout a lifetime.”
“Emphasis will be placed on an understanding that there is a broader, boundless, and fluid spectrum of sexuality that is developed throughout a lifetime,” the document states. “Sexual orientation and gender identity terms will be discussed with focus on appreciation for individual differences.”
Parents like Andrea Lafferty, president of Traditional Values Coalition, are outraged,
“Parents need to protect their kids from this assault. Who could imagine that we are in this place today – but we are.”
To make matters worse, parents will not be able to opt their children out of this ridiculous program because it will be incorporated into the health curriculum.
More from Fox News,
And the Family Research Council’s (Peter) Sprigg said there’s a pretty good reason why they can’t produce a textbook about fluidity.
“It’s an ideological concept,” he told me. “It’s not a scientific one.”
He warned that Fairfax County’s planned curriculum could be harmful to students.
“It’s only going to create more confusion in the minds of young people who don’t need any further confusion about sexual identity,” he said.
For parents who object to this insanity being taught to their children, contact the FCPS school board here and plan to attend the school board meeting on May 21st when this ridiculous curriculum will be introduced.
More on promoting gender confusion among children here.
13 comments
[…] Fairfax County, VA, the school board proposes to teach children in grades 7 through12 that “gender is fluid and on a spectrum.” Your child […]
Here is a little cautionary poem I wrote today. Please share it if you like it!! : )
Fluidity of gender?
Oh! What is coming next?
Perhaps fluidity of personhood
Will be the next excursion,
If you have no aversion
To ‘a sickle and a hammer’ vest!
“Comrade, all are not born with equal
capacity for breath;
You expand your chest too much,
Soon there will be no O2 left!”
“No it doesn’t matter Comrade,
If trees prosper as you exhale;
Everything must be equitable,
Your grade is F, you FAIL!”
“It is fitting that we should tax you
For taking more than your fair air;
Because all things being equal
You must be reeducated
And finally made aware
Individuals must bear their share
Just like the fluid shee-ple”
“So here is a syringe
To unburden you of blood
The sickle of the suckers
Since boundaries are fluid!
The fluid ‘We”
Now can be,
Any fluid thing or body
We consider it to be!”
“And because you had your wish
And expunged all boundaries,
Your blood as well as property,
(Oh, fluid thinker!)
Will trickle up to me!
To the hammer!
To the sickle!
To equal prosperity!
(Or lack of it!)
And the common we!”
“See you later Com-rats!
I’m headed for the ‘wheeeeeee!’
After I decide today
What gender I should be!”
“But first let me consider Com-rats
Since a RAT is a PIG is a DOG is a BOY!
What mammals your children resemble!
I’m calling PETA today!
Oh jumping, joy and wheeeeee!
Absolute power makes me tremble!!!
This is the story that got me to throw my name in the hat to run for our local School Board. If we don’t get involved and stand up for what we believe, this will filter to every county in VA.
[…] teachings in their children’s sex education classes. We reported on some of those new ideas here. Dr. Gaza’s […]
[…] Posted by Jeanine Martin, The Bull Elephant […]
[…] Fairfax Schools To Teach “Gender Spectrum” and “Gender Fluidity” (The Bull Elephant) […]
Allow parents to be notified of and opt out of any teaching in the Fairfax County, VA school system relating to human sexuality, including health education. Respect 1st amendment rights of free exercise of religious freedom and parental rights.
Share this petition with this tinyurl:
http://tinyurl.com/ov2nonf
Signup for email group updates here:
http://tinyurl.com/n4wh3yu
==============================
The Fairfax County, VA school board is set to discuss this in new business on May 21, 2015 and take action on June 25, 2015.
No public notification, parental notification or public input has been received.
Item
was presented less than 48 hours after the hotly debated topic of
adding Gender Identity (transgender) to the Non-discrimination policy
(policy 1450).
==========
WHAT DOES THIS MEAN?
THE FLE COMMITTEE REPORTED TO THE BOARD:
“PARENTS WILL NOT BE ABLE TO OPT OUT OF THE LESSONS WHICH ARE MOVED FROM THE FLE CURRICULUM INTO THE HEALTH CURRICULUM.”
=========================
Here are some statements pulled from the recommended objectives:
Grade 7: Students will be provided definitions for sexual
orientation terms heterosexuality, homosexuality, and bisexuality; and
the gender identity term transgender.
Grade 8: Individual identity will also be described as having four
parts — biological gender, gender identity (includes transgender),
gender role, and sexual orientation (includes heterosexual, bisexual,
and homosexual). The concept that sexuality is a broader spectrum will
be introduced.
Grade 9: Emphasis will be placed on tolerance and nondiscrimination of all people.
Grade 10: Emphasis will be placed on an understanding that there is a
broader, boundless, and fluid spectrum of sexuality that is developed
throughout a lifetime. Sexual orientation and gender identity terms will
be discussed with focus on appreciation for individual differences.
ACTIONS TO TAKE:
For New business on May 21 – 10 speaking slots, sign up 6 am May 18 at
http://www.fcps.edu/schlbd/meetings/requestspeak.shtml
Written comment from May 21 – June 19 – We will send a link when this is available.
BOARD VOTE — JUNE 25
Until May 21 please send email to the school board regarding this at
mailto:[email protected]
http://www.boarddocs.com/vsba/fairfax/Board.nsf/files/9W4QLH5CB9D5/$file/FLECAC%20Annual%20Report%202014-2015.pdf
=================
It appears the School board is attempting to
subvert parental authority and this law in order to indoctrinate
children in the radical: homosexual, bi-sexual, trans-gender, gender
fluidity agenda.
https://vacode.org/22.1-207.1/
https://vacode.org/22.1-207.2/
http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?000+cod+22.1-207.2
“Parents and guardians have the right to review the family life
education program offered by their school division, including written
and audio-visual educational materials used in the program. Parents and
guardians also have the right to excuse their child from all or part of
family life education instruction.”
==============
Share the petition with this tinyurl:
http://tinyurl.com/ov2nonf
Signup for email group updates here:
http://tinyurl.com/n4wh3yu
Thank you for posting all of this valuable information for parents and taxpayers.
DEAR FAIRFAX REPUBLICANS. Use this to energize people in Fairfax to vote Republican. The vast majority of parents opposed this and the Dems shoved it down their throats. That’s liberalism. But this is a great opportunity (rallying point) for the Republicans in Fairfax to take back some ground.
I see opportunities for Classical Conversations and Veritas Press/Omnibus Communities in Fairfax County! If anything will drive people to homeschooling and Conservative politics it’s overt sexual perversity polluting the school system. Parents who held their noses before, might not be able to keep from turning blue on this one. 😀
I watched most of the proceedings on May 7th and both sides were overselling their perspectives. Their were a lot of unreasonable people speaking at that hearing. Elizabeth Schultz took a very measured perspective in comparison to a lot of her supporters. Listen to the statement of Keith Appell on May 7th if you want to see how to convince those who are still on the fence about these issues.
In this more recent instance we do not even have a policy on the table and it is being lambasted as the end of the world. Our side will not win through hyperbole. There are a lot of regular people that need to be convinced and being a bunch of Chicken Littles does not advance our causes.
blather blather blather….yaddda yadda…your “measured” and soft limpyness is the problem! These marxists change agents need to be drug out the meeting and tarred and feathered! But thats how real men would act at this affront to our childrens innocence…you obviously are more…um…”fluid”
When you can’t draw the distinction between sexual preferences and the biological basis of gender in the public school system I don’t have much hope for of nurturing a new generation of top flight scientists for the US. Perhaps the push for H1B work permits for foreign tech workers and scientists has some justification other then corporate cost savings