I homeschooled, so I was never faced with an issue of screenings or sex ed in a public school setting.
But my sister sent her kids to public school for awhile and she was always having to "opt out" her young children from the sex-ed classes (don't know if there were other screenings.)
My question to Chelsea's mom would be, if some parents knew enough to send in the opt-out form, how come she didn't know there was such a thing as an opt-out form?
If you choose to send your kids to public school, then you'd pretty darn well stay on top of what's going on in that school and what is in the curriculum.
That bears repeating. Even if you believe you live in a conservative school district as I do. Empty your kids' backpacks if necessary to make certain you are on top of what your school is doing. Go to the school board meetings just to let them know you are there and taking note. My "conservative" school district is now calling the Christmas holidays "Winter Holidays". However, they are still calling Easter "Easter". I fear that by next year - it will be called something else. I will be at my next school board meeting to find out where this originated.
The subtle messages sent by the school contradict everything a Conservative and a Christian might stand for.
We recently got a large amount of donations to our homeschool library from an exschool teacher. Much of the stuff was excellent, but we threw out 3 HUGE boxes of inappropriate stuff.
We had piles of school posters, nobody wanted them. Among the poster slogans:
The most important goal in life is to help society.
Wisdom is silence.
Be one with nature.
You are the center of your universe.