Posted on 06/05/2016 3:59:44 AM PDT by HomerBohn
Washington State public schools have approved health education learning standards that include teaching gender expression to kindergarteners. The new K-12 health and physical education learning standards were quietly adopted by the Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI) on March 25 without issuance of public notice or press release, according to the Daily Caller.
The Daily Caller reports that the controvesial standards will include teaching "Self-Identity" which includes educating students on numerous ways to express gender to students in kindergarten. According to the states health education glossary, gender is defined as a social construct based on emotional, behavioral, and cultural characteristics attached to a persons assigned biological sex.
The kindergarten curriculum will also include lessons on safe and unwanted touch, but it is not clear whether the lesson plans will include teaching consent.
The Daily Caller also indicates that by third grade, students will be taught that gender roles vary and about gender identity, which the state has defined as Someones inner sense of their gender.
By the end of elementary school, students will be expected to understand the following:
The range of gender roles and identity
How ideas about gender roles are impacted by friends and family
The impact that media, society and culture can have on ones understanding of gender roles and identity
How to identify trusted adults to whom students may pose questions regarding gender identity and sexual orientation
At the completion of high school, students will have also learned how to distinguish between biological sex, gender identity, gender expression, and sexual orientation.
Despite the controversial nature of the health standards, OSPI claims it does not seek to indoctrinate students with its own set of beliefs. Standards help students become familiar with concepts that education experts feel are essential for all students to know, said Nathan Olson, communications manager at OSPI. Standards are not used to impose belief systems.
And yet when the Daily Caller asked whether a student could fail a course if they refuse to accept the notion that gender identity is different from biological sex, Olson vaguely responded that it would be at the discretion of the district/school level.
Olson added, We dont exactly know what a school would do if a student failed to complete an assignment because he/she opposed the materials being taught.
It's unclear whether parents in Washington were aware that the changes had been adopted. Though the standards were finalized in March, a quick perusal of OSPIs website reveals that the department has not issued a press release regarding the changes.
It's likely that the new standards will provoke backlash from parents in Washington, as parents throughout the country have found themselves embroiled in struggles over how schools handle sexual identity and transgenderism, both educationally and socially.
Last month, for example, Fairfax County Public Schools in Virginia provoked ire from parents after it released a report recommending changes to the districts family life curriculum for grades 7 through 12 that involved lessons on the notion of sexual fluidity and spectrum. The recommendations asked schools to teach students that there are no 100 percent boys or girls.
Likewise, 11 states are currently suing the Obama administration over guidelines regarding which school bathrooms transgender students may use. The federal guidelines tell schools to allow students to use bathrooms based on the gender identities with which they identify, not based on the sex with which they were born.
And despite claims by the Obama administration and various school districts that all these new LGBTQ guidelines are intended to foster understanding and prevent discrimination in schools, experts indicate that these efforts are doing a disservice to students' mental health.
According to a position statement released by the American College of Pediatricians (ACPeds) released a position statement on March 21 entitled Gender Ideology Harms Children, any policies that foster the belief that gender dysphoria is anything beyond a psychological problem are in fact harmful. As such, schools and lawmakers should reject all policies that condition children to accept as normal a life of chemical and surgical impersonation of the opposite sex. Facts not ideology determine reality, the statement asserts.
The authors of the position statement make several scientific observations, including that human sexuality is an objective biological binary trait." Children who use hormones to attempt to mimic a sexuality that is not their own have a number of dangerous physical and mental risks, the position statement advises, adding that conditioning children into believing a lifetime of chemical and surgical impersonation of the opposite sex is normal and healthful should be classified as child abuse.
The authors' position is logically well-grounded. When a boy identifies as a girl, or vice versa, he is clearly delusional and needs mental help, not support for his delusion, in the same manner that a normal-sized child who believed he was too fat and refused most food (anorexia) would be given counseling to change his behavior. The same would hold true if the child habitually over-ate, had a poor attention span (ADHD), were depressed, or believed he were a dog, cat, or tree. The only difference between these mental maladies and "transgenderism" is politics.
But that position has not stopped schools from forging ahead with their agendas. Washington State public schools' new health curriculum standards are scheduled to be implemented by the fall of 2017.
Recruiting.
Destroying the value system taught by parents and church.
“...that include teaching gender expression to kindergarteners.”
What about species expression? I wanted to be Mighty Mouse when I was a tot. But I was oppressed, and now I do not have the ability to right toppling buildings or save mice in peril from evil cats. If only the adults in my social network had been more enlightened!
Danke.
No. And so goes another reason to quit flapping our gums online, get off our lazy, cowardly butts, and DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT!!
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
They have to have all the destruction on place before Obama is replaced.
I am getting up there in years so I do not expect the final act of this play.
I hope all those young voters who are supporting these social changes, and weakening of our history and culture enjoy the future they are creating for themselves. I know I would not.
This is “1984” type evil
The DOE needs to change name to DOSE.
Department of Social Engineering
Why does this not surprise me coming as it does from Washington State? I don’t know how I got away with it, but I never taught one day of sex ed in school, even though it was required, and I sure wouldn’t teach to this material. Hands off our kids, DOE. This is abuse.
Parents might have to interrogate their kids when they come home from school and inform them that their teachers are a pack of loons if the kids haven’t figured that out for themselves already. When answering questions in class or on a test, they might instruct their kids to say that “The book says...”, or “The teacher says...” rather than coming out themselves and acknowledging a lie.
“DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT!!”
Do what? The schools DO NOT ANSWER TO US.
They answer to the people that cut them the checks, and that is the GOVERNMENT. Sure, they try to humor us parents, make us feel involved, but tell them you think kids should learn math first without a calculator, and you’re lucky if they don’t have you spend the night in jail.
As long as government funds the schools, government OWNS the schools - and it doesn’t make a DAMN BIT OF DIFFERENCE if we fund the government, as they simply take the money from us, whether we like it or not.
If I’m wrong, then tell me why this crap continues in CONSERVATIVE COMMUNITIES (as in 70+ percent Republican) with involved parents, like Katy, Texas.
They own the schools.
OTOH, those who aren't pathetic and weak, and aren't willing to just shrug their shoulders and let the commies win, know that we can take a page for the Leftist playbook and ORGANIZE!!! Those people who are worthy of their American birthright know that we have this powerful weapon called the First Amendment, that gives us the freedom to do a helluva lot more than just pound a keyboard. Those real, courageous Americans know that they can rally, circulate petitions, call their local radio shows, write letters to their editor, build public support, then lace up the Reeboks and get out in the freakin' streets!
But I understand it's a lot easier to make excuses, continue to buy Coke or Pepsi, bank at Bank of America, take the family on vacation to Disney, support the NFL and the NBA, even though those corporations are completely opposed to everything that made America great. I mean hey...I understand you can't live without them, and they're holding a gun on you and forcing you to give them your money, right? Plus, by being a wuss, and never getting off the couch, you're sure not to miss the Texans, or the Rockets, or The Walking Dead, right?
So yeah, keep telling yourself that there's nothing we can do. When we fighters win our Republic back, we'll be sure to free you slaves, too.
Gee, and I thought Texans were fighters...
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
We’ve had DECADES of this crap, yet the Soccer Moms and their metrosexual husbands SIMPLY REFUSE to believe anything that I’ve said (or anyone else that’s beaten the public school system - with children to prove it) - nope, if it’s me telling them that public schools are now in business to DESTROY KIDS, versus that nice teacher and principal - I lose, EVERY TIME (except for once with an Immigrant family that already understood how horrible our education system is).
I’m done, 20 years of this is enough. If we don’t give parents DIRECT FUNDING, nothing will change.
But feel free to keep fighting and trying to organize, I respect that - and I’ll keep posting here, but that’s about it for me.
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