The Campaign for Children and Families (CCF) is raising a warning over a new law, SB 777. Their analysis of SB 777 is that it will force "schoolchildren to support all aspects of transsexuality, bisexuality and homosexuality."
The CCF encourages parents to Protect your kids by exiting public schools and reminds parents that because of a recent U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruling parents have no right to decide what their children are taught at public schools. The CCF's understanding of SB 777 is that as early as January 2, 2008, every public school in California will be required to teach young children, even those in kindergarten, about homosexuality, bisexuality, and transsexuality in a positive light.
At the end of the CCF's call to action: Exit the government-controlled school system, is a list of links and resources to help parents get their children out of public schools.
I wonder if this will be The Tipping Point, the last straw, that prompts many parents to homeschool.
Update I - 9 Nov 07
don found a link to the bill itself: Link. After reading it for ten minutes I'm not sure if I should be worried or not.
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3 comments:
This was the tipping point for our family, when this bill came up the first time about 1 1/2 years ago. We pulled our daughter out of public school after 1st grade.
As this become more public I expect more parents will follow your example.
You may want to read the language of the bill itself. Link
The CCF interprets this as requiring the schools to teach, or at least support transsexuality, bisexuality, and homosexuality. My reading of it is that it simply prohibits the schools from discriminating against persons on the basis of gender or sexual orientation (among other things such as disability, race, and religion).
In fact the bill says "No instructional materials shall be adopted by any governing board for use in the schools that, in its
determination, contains:
(a) Any matter reflecting adversely upon persons because of
a characteristic listed in Section 220."
So this would also mean the materials cannot reflect adversly on heterosexuality or Christianity either since they are covered under sexual orientation and religion.
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