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Students required to take controversial sex-ed class
The Examiner ^ | 1/16/07 | Dena Levitz

Posted on 01/17/2007 8:53:47 AM PST by dcnd9

Montgomery County - Although Montgomery County school officials have been making controversial new teachings on sexual orientation seem as if they’re optional, the reality is that all 10th-graders must take the class in question in order to graduate, officials said.

Schools chief public information officer Brian Edwards explained to The Examiner that the 18-week health course — which includes two hotly contested lessons mentioning transsexuality and bisexuality within a three-week unit on family life — is required.

Administrators have emphasized during meetings leading up to the approval of the new sex-ed curriculum that the lessons are “opt-in” — meaning parents must sign a waiver indicating it’s all right for their children to enroll.

Officials have stressed that it’s more of a permission-based process than “opt-out,” in which the student is in the class unless specifically requested not to be by a parent.

But Edwards clarified that, more precisely — with regard to the sex-ed-included class — students can’t just pick and choose which parts of the course to study. So, essentially it’s an all-or-nothing mentality.

“If you choose to opt out of a lesson,” he said, using one of the two sexual orientation ones as examples, “you opt out of the whole course.”

And opting out of a required course, he said, means not graduating.

That notion makes the issue of the debated sex-ed curriculum important to all Montgomery County families with children in the district, curriculum opponents are saying, because they will be confronted with the teachings and expected to make a choice.

John Garza, an attorney representing Citizens for a Responsible Curriculum, which sued Montgomery County Schools two years ago over sexual education teachings, said he feels that officials have not made this point clear enough and is hoping to educate parents on the reality.

dlevitz@dcexaminer.com

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Maryland
KEYWORDS: chspe; gay; homosexualagenda; moralabsolutes; perversion; samesex; sexeducation
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1 posted on 01/17/2007 8:53:49 AM PST by dcnd9
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Paper link:
http://www.examiner.com/a-512653~Editorial__Arbitrator_s_decision_costs_millions__does_nothing.html


2 posted on 01/17/2007 8:54:45 AM PST by dcnd9
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Article Link:
http://www.examiner.com/a-510689~Students_required_to_take_controversial_sex_ed_class.html


3 posted on 01/17/2007 8:56:39 AM PST by dcnd9
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To: dcnd9

Why in the world would they do such a thing? Are they promoting a Liberal agenda?


4 posted on 01/17/2007 8:58:33 AM PST by wastedyears ("Gun control is hitting your target accurately." - Richard Marcinko)
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To: dcnd9

You know...it might help in the title of the thread to say WHERE this is occurring...Just 'montgomery" doesn't say a thing.


5 posted on 01/17/2007 8:59:15 AM PST by Recovering Ex-hippie (There are no moderate Mooslims !)
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To: wastedyears

Surely, you jest. :)


6 posted on 01/17/2007 8:59:54 AM PST by bytesmith
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To: dcnd9

Which Montgomery County is this? MD, PA?


7 posted on 01/17/2007 9:00:12 AM PST by End Times Sentinel (In Memory of my Dear Friend Henry Lee II)
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To: dcnd9
And opting out of a required course, he said, means not graduating.

He would make a wonderful snake oil salesman...Why don't these gay recruiting, union pimps just say so up front.

I bet these clowns wonder why more parents are deciding to homeschool instead.


8 posted on 01/17/2007 9:00:57 AM PST by darkwing104 (Let's get dangerous)
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To: dcnd9

So, if you choose to opt out of class, then you are opting out of graduating too.

Funny how liberals fix it so that there are painful choices for those who oppose them.


9 posted on 01/17/2007 9:01:45 AM PST by TruthConquers (Delenda est publius schola)
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so, they can opt-out before they can't opt-out??


10 posted on 01/17/2007 9:01:47 AM PST by GeorgiaDawg32 (I'm a Patriot Guard Rider..www.patriotguard.org for info..)
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"which includes two hotly contested lessons mentioning transsexuality and bisexuality within a three-week unit on family life — is required."

They're leaving beastiality out? School board must be slipping - quick contact ACLU and demand beastiality inclusion so that students are "taught" the "full range of options available for the expression of their sexuality."

When oh Lord, when do You decide that Your creation has sunk to the depths that even You can no longer tolerate?

11 posted on 01/17/2007 9:02:50 AM PST by zerosix
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Montgomery County, MD--one of the collar counties of Washington DC and among the most liberal in the US.


12 posted on 01/17/2007 9:06:59 AM PST by Fairview
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To: zerosix

don't forget NAMBLA..they've gotta be in there too..


13 posted on 01/17/2007 9:08:19 AM PST by GeorgiaDawg32 (I'm a Patriot Guard Rider..www.patriotguard.org for info..)
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To: Fairview

When I was in the 10th Grade, opting out meant you when to the library and did a short research paper on eating healthy or exercise, while the sex ed stuff your parents didn't want you to participate in occurred in the classroom.

There is no reason the school cannot supply alternative work units for students whose parents don't want the school teaching their children about sex.

There is no reason to not allow graduation of students whose parents don't want them learning about homosexuality. Unless your agenda is to force that perspective on students that are not old enough to make such decisions yet.


14 posted on 01/17/2007 9:12:40 AM PST by viper592
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Oops, completely forgot - especially now that Devlin has been exposed as "selecting his consenting partners" in the rural area near St. Louis. Watch those in ACLU and NAMBLA pour $$$$ into Devlin's support.


15 posted on 01/17/2007 9:14:18 AM PST by zerosix
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To: dcnd9

Our tax dollars at work by the Frankfurt School minions.


16 posted on 01/17/2007 9:17:24 AM PST by polymuser (There is one war and one enemy.)
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Perhaps the best strategy for conservative parents would be to educate their own children first so that they know more than midwives. Then send them into the classes so they speak out and torpedo the pro-faggot stuff with a few well-chosen facts and demolish the whole liberal agenda class.
17 posted on 01/17/2007 9:17:33 AM PST by Monterrosa-24 (...even more American than a Russian AK-47 and a French bikini.)
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18 posted on 01/17/2007 9:21:13 AM PST by wagglebee ("We are ready for the greatest achievements in the history of freedom." -- President Bush, 1/20/05)
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HOMESCHOOL or send your kids to a Christian school! The indoctrination on homosexuality and other issues will not go away.


19 posted on 01/17/2007 9:27:04 AM PST by Marysecretary (GOD IS STILL IN CONTROL.)
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which includes two hotly contested lessons mentioning transsexuality and bisexuality within a three-week unit on family life

I assume that the 3 weeks on "family life" means 3 weeks of sex-ed and not 2 days on sex ed and 13 days on child care. If so, what in sex ed takes three weeks? These aren't medical students in urology or ob-gyn classes. In high school sex ed we were taught the parts, how they worked, what disease you could get from their misuse similar to the chapters on the skin or the liver. That's not three weeks of study even if you count time for teenage giggling.

20 posted on 01/17/2007 9:28:50 AM PST by KarlInOhio (Samoans: The (low) wage slaves in the Pelosi-Starkist complex.)
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