“National standards” report plans sex-ed in kindergarten
A report backed by a large of advocates, including the nation’s largest teacher’s union, is advocating “national standards” for sexual education and gender identity training begin as early as kindergarten and continue throughout a child’s education. CNSNews.com reports,
By the time they leave elementary school, children should be able to “define sexual orientation,” and by the eighth grade be able to “define emergency contraception and its use,” according to a report containing controversial new recommendations for sex education in U.S. public schools.
“Ideally, comprehensive sexuality education should start in kindergarten and continue through 12th grade,” says the “National Sexuality Education Standards” report, drawn up by a range of advocates, academics and public education officials.
The Future of Sex Education (FoSE), an initiative started by sex education advocates, developed the standards “to create a strategic plan for sexuality education policy and implementation.”
Also involved are the American School Health Association, the National Education Association Health Information Network – the non-profit arm of the nation’s largest teacher’s union, the NEA – the American Association for Health Education and the Society of State Leaders of Health and Physical Education.
An advisory committee includes senior officials from Planned Parenthood and the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN).
Ironically, the report recommends that at age seven, children should be able to “[p]rovide examples of how friends, family, media, society and culture influence ways in which boys and girls think they should act.” Funny they left “public educators” and “radical leftist activists who influence their curriculum” out of that list.
It does, however, go out of its way to marginalize abstinence programs and organizations the support abstinence:
While the standards include references to abstinence, the FoSE advocates against abstinence-only programs. “Today, as the pendulum swings away from abstinence-only-until-marriage programs, advocates for comprehensive sex education are challenged to remain vigilant on the policy front, making certain that we maintain gains against this failed effort,” FoSE says on its Web site.
FoSE lists Focus on the Family, Concerned Women for America, Moral Majority and the Eagle Forum as groups that “spearheaded campaigns to discredit comprehensive sexuality education.”