School District Forbids Parents From Opting Kids Out of LGBT Lessons
Where else ? California.
Parents in Orange County, California may not opt their children out of lessons related to gender identity or sexual orientation, according to a memorandum written by the school district's general counsel.
"Parents who disagree with the instructional materials related to gender, gender identity, gender expression and sexual orientation may not excuse their children from this instruction," read the memorandum from Ronald Wenkart to the Orange County Board of Education.
His analysis was included in a March 29 memorandum that was supposed to be a comprehensive legal review of the California Healthy Youth Act.
The legislation requires school districts to provide students with comprehensive sexual health education. The law mandates that schools "teach about gender, gender expression, gender identity, and the harm of negative gender stereotypes."
According to the law, students can be excused from the comprehensive sexual health education portion of the law. But it's what kids are not exempt from that has parents concerned.
The school district's general counsel said that exemption does not apply to "instructions, materials or programming that discusses gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, discrimination, harassment, bullying, intimidation, relationships, or family and does not discuss human reproductive organs and their functions."
Perhaps even more alarming is the belief that school districts and the California General Assembly knows what's best for school children.
Credit : Tod Starnes
This is what the Dems want for the whole country.