Tomorrow: Sex Ed Mandate Hearing!
The Joint Committee on Education announced a hearing on HB 673 and SB 318 “An Act Relative to Healthy Youth,” a euphemism for the Sex
May 19, 2021
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MFI believes that the best place for youth to learn about sex is in the home, within the context of a loving and trusting parent-child relationship. Parents are the primary teachers of their children and as such, they are uniquely qualified to provide the moral framework needed for healthy sex education. In our hyper-sexualized culture, students receive many negative messages about sex. Meaningful conversations with parents are the most effective way to counteract these destructive messages and to equip and empower young people to remain abstinent until marriage.
We do acknowledge that not every student has the support they need at home and some students might benefit from biologically based sex education in school. Research has shown that Sexual Risk Avoidance (SRA) programs produce the best outcomes by encouraging youth to avoid risky behaviors that lead to emotional, physical, and spiritual harm. SRA programs emphasize developing healthy relationships and delaying sexual activity until marriage, communicating the clear message that sexual delay is the only 100% effective way to avoid pregnancy, STIs and other negative consequences of teen sex.
Unfortunately, instead of implementing a healthy SRA approach to sex ed in our public schools, our state legislature, the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE), Planned Parenthood, and others are pushing to mandate a much different approach to sex ed through the use of Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE) curriculum. CSE is a specific type of graphic sexuality education that promotes sexual rights for children and serves as a how-to manual, encouraging teens to become sexually active. In fact, nearly 1 in 4 teens who receive this type of sex ed say that it makes them feel like having sex is an expectation. Equally concerning is that CSE is designed to change the sexual and gender norms of society by promoting diverse sexualities and perpetuating the dangerous transgender trend affecting our youth.
Currently in the Commonwealth, teaching sex ed is at the discretion of local school districts and those that do choose to teach it have full control over what curriculum they use. If our legislators and Planned Parenthood have their way though, local control will be taken away and put into the hands of bureaucrats. The Sex-Ed Mandate, SB 318 and HB 673, give full authority to DESE to dictate the use of only CSE curriculum for those districts who decide to include sex ed in their health lessons.
In an effort to mobilize a grassroots movement of parents and concerned citizens to sound the alarm about the implementation of CSE in our schools and to push back against the loss of local control over educational decisions, the Massachusetts Informed Parents (MIP) initiative was launched in the fall of 2019 as an outreach of MFI. MIP endeavors to equip parents to protect their kids through the sharing of relevant information, including articles, research, and exhibits from the curriculum, and by providing tools and strategies for helping parents to effect change in their local communities. MIP is growing a large coalition of parents and faith and community leaders by leveraging the power of social media and by fostering one on one relationships through parent forums being held across the state. To stay informed on issues related to sex education and for updates on the Sex-Ed Mandate legislation, join the MIP group on FB. Contact Mary Ellen Siegler if you would like to schedule a parent forum for your church or community group.
For more information on CSE visit Stop CSE to watch a short movie and to view harm analyses of the curricula.
For more information on SRA curricula visit We Ascend.
Click MIP Parent Forum Flyer to learn more about our parent information forums.
Click MIP Action Item List to learn what you can do to protect your child from CSE being taught in MA public schools.
Use our sample letter to request information about sex ed curriculum being used in your child’s school: Sample Sex Ed Curriculum Request. Forward the information you receive back to Mary Ellen Siegler.
Use our sample letters to opt your child out of sex ed class: English Opt Out Letter and Spanish Opt Our Letter.
Resources being used in MA schools to teach sex ed are evaluated to see whether they contain the following harmful elements:
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Gathering information from around the state is an ongoing project. Use this sample email to request information from your district. If you already know what curriculum is in use in your district, but do not see it included on this map, or if you receive a response from a request sent to your district, please contact Mary Ellen Siegler.
Interesting story about a teacher taking a stand for what’s right in Virginia:
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“I’m a teacher but I serve God first and I will not affirm that a biological boy can be a girl and vice versa because it’s against my religion.”Comment on Facebook “I’m a teacher …
More teachers need to do this.
A judge ordered this teacher be reinstated. www.christianpost.com/news/judge-orders-reinstatement-of-teacher-who-opposes-trans-pronouns.html
It will be interesting to see how this plays out
Maybe a go fund me account for this guy would be good for doing the right thing
Sue the heck out of them!
This teacher has rights too! Good for him for standing up for what he believes
God bless him.
Love this…an anonymous group of parents have these message yielding trucks in front of 7 NYC prep schools today…4-5 rotating messages about CRT and indoctrination…awesome…
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yep
Yes!
Wow! Love to see it.
What a way to ensure they are heard
It’s so great to see people with the confidence to speak up.
Maybe more parents should do this?
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One Rhode Island mother is fighting back in her daughter’s school district, demanding the school answer her public records request for information on its critical race theory curriculum. According to …Comment on Facebook One Rhode Island …
Good for her. She found a way to get their attention
Awesome keep it going..
We should
Ridiculous what they are teaching. Using non gender specific pronouns. Pisses me off. So because some do not want to be identified as whatever, you take away my childrens right to be identified. Nope. Make sure the start of school next year, l send notice that all my kids will be identified as their proper pronouns.
Anyone on Cape Cod getting record requests my brother in law lives there
I think another way of going about this is to just ask your principal or someone in the front office who is the curriculum director of your school. In our town there’s one woman who is in charge of K-6 as the curriculum director. So you can contact her and ask her any questions you have about what the general outline of the curriculum is that the teachers are allowed to use in classes. Then there is some leeway that the teachers get to use different resources. I believe there should be specific resources approved upon by the parents that the teachers are allowed to choose from they should not be just allowed to go to any website they want and grab any video or any book and teach from that because it gives them too much leeway to force their agenda and their own opinion. For example my son has been doing remote social studies and I knew from day one that the teacher was in my personal opinion a deep leftist. So I had to monitor that class every day this year while I didn’t have to monitor any of the other classes. One of the first thing she did was tell the children that Ruth Ginsberg 🤮👿was a hero babarf no she’s not and the assignment with the children had to write about why she’s a hero instead of just letting the chchildren pick hero of their own from history to write about she’s telling them who is a hero and who isn’t. Then there was a whole couple of weeks on Columbus and a real big push to hate Columbus then the rest of the school year was basically all slavery. Well is there nothing else that we can teach our children.. is it necessary to talk about this subject for an entire school year practically while subjects are ignored. Do 10 year olds need to see videos of tar and feathering.. um no. Well after telling the curriculum director what my son has been exposed to this year she was very clear to tell me that the majority of what I mentioned was stuff that the teacher decided to teach on her own that had nothing to do with the curriculum. So thank God I paid attention and stood up and asked questions because now that teacher has been reprimanded and those things will not continue to be taught hopefully in the future and she will hopefully stick to the curriculum and other kids will not have to be brainwashed as I believe they were this year. Because I monitored the class and saw it was going on I was able to shut the screen off shut the volume offNot have my son be exposed to those things. And the curriculum director herself created a curriculum for my son to do that was totally different from the one the teacher was teaching. It was on the constitution mostly.
Is this happening in catholic private schools as well?
Good, I hope the school board is intimidated.
I just found out our district is doing this by contacting the school board directly. CRT, gender theory, and intersectionality 💀
I heard about this woman. Yes, parents are organizing all over the place, locally and nationally. Get good people to run for school Committee! And don’t be afraid to file DESE complaints and FOIA requests. And don’t be afraid to email everyone and show up to SC meetings to give them a piece of your mind! Fight! Fight! Fight!
Good for her!
How would one go about doing this?
Vote for Shanel If you are in Worcester. She opposes the 3rs! She wants to help our children!
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Shanel was born and raised in Worcester, she has lived in nearly every part of the city. Despite being a teen mother, along with the economic challenges and hardships she endured, Shanel credits her u…Comment on Facebook Shanel was born and …
What an amazing person! I don’t live in Worcester, but will donate. 🙏🏻👏
How do I vote ?
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Children are among our most precious gifts, and they deserve to be protected in the whole of their persons—mind, body, and heart. The Promise to America’s Children is a national movement of parent…Did you see this story? Parents are shocked to find out that their young children are being sexualized by AMAZE "sex ed" videos in school. I have been sounding the alarm about AMAZE videos for a couple of years now. They are used in schools throughout MA.
Here’s what a school spokesman had to say:
“As part of Dalton’s comprehensive Health curriculum for students, a lesson on Gender & Bodies included two evidence-based and age-appropriate videos approved for students 4 years and older. These videos align with nationally recognized methodologies and standards. We consistently review our Health curriculum, making sure that the content is developmentally appropriate and, if necessary, we adapt our curriculum accordingly. We will continue to listen carefully to parent feedback, respond thoughtfully to community concerns, and develop lessons that are in the best interest of our students, respect our community’s values, and correspond with best practices.”
👉 "These videos align with nationally recognized methodologies and standards." 👈
Do you know what these "nationally recognized methodologies and standards" are? They are very likely The National Sexuality Education Standards (NSES), published by The Future of Sex Education (FoSE) Initiative, a partnership between Advocates for Youth (producer of the infamous and graphic 3Rs curriculum), Answer, and SIECUS: Sex Ed for Social Change… all the bad actors in sex education.
I have exposed these "national" standards in previous posts. Search the group for the National Sexuality Standards to learn more or find a harm analysis document in the files section of this group.
Parents are waking up to the aggressive sexual agenda being pushed in schools. But let me encourage you… it is not enough to simply be outraged by the problem. We must act. Together. Find the action items list in the files sections of this group for ideas about what you can do to protect children in education.
Be equipped to protect your kids! If you don’t, who will?
Dalton parents enraged over ‘masturbation’ videos for first-graders
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Last fall, parents at the posh, $55,000-per-year Dalton School got wind of their first-graders being taught sex education lessons that included masturbation. They complained to school administrator…Comment on Facebook Last fall, parents …
You need to be trained to pick up those key words. As soon as I read "nationally aligned" my ears perked up. Its not even the specific standards but the fact that local schools are abiding by national standards. Increasingly we are seeing federalization of all our local institutions. National might as well be global and that is where the source of our increasing loss of parental rights root. We need to cut these ties with the federal government if we ever want to return these issues to local control. They have been bribing us with our own money for more than half a century now and the structure is already built to have full control over us all in a China type model. It is probably already too late but if masses of people don't wake up and recognize what is happening our efforts will be in vain. The CCP is a group of 1.5 million ruling over 1.5 billion people. Dont think it can't happen here
Jenna Colleran read what she wrote above also
Disgusting.
Thank you, Mary, for your continued work. Dalton is notorious in its ties to known sex traffickers/abusers. www.nytimes.com/2019/07/12/nyregion/jeffrey-epstein-dalton-teacher.html
Very upset about all of this. Thank you for keeping us informed. I’ll be doing something about this soon enough! 😡
These people need to be stopped…my 13yo son is entering high school in the fall and I'm so happy to have found this page so I can be equipped to recognize the vernacular, and verbiage, of the tools of indoctrination schools use now, and have a supportive group for when I "fight the good fight"!…thank you!…
Keep spreading the word. Many parents don't know. I have been told I am the only parent who contacts them. Then when talking to parents they are shocked bc they don't know. They think the teachings are the old standards….
Paula Kligerman
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