Important School Board Meeting — June 27

The Fairfax County School Board will be meeting this Thursday, June 27, to consider important issues affecting family rights, sexualization of children, and the agenda of the tiny-but-powerful transgender lobby.  In particular, it will be voting on sex-education recommendations made by the Family Life Education Curriculum Advisory Committee (FLECAC).  These proposals include showing graphic videos to young children, combining boys and girls into unisex sex-ed classes in elementary and middle schools, and teaching kids, from the fourth grade on, that their biological sex may not be real.

If you are concerned about these issues, PLEASE sign up to speak at the meeting, either in person, or live via video, or by a prerecorded video.  The sign-up form, as well as the rules governing community speakers, are here.  The deadline to register is the close of business tomorrow, Tuesday.  Also, PLEASE attend the meeting in person if you can on Thursday evening at 7 p.m. at the Luther Jackson Middle School in Merrifield (3020 Gallows Road, Falls Church, Va.).  The “progressive” activists always participate in force at meetings like this.  It is important for those who oppose their agenda to make the School Board aware of the majority’s concerns.  (If you sign up to speak, be aware that a two-minute time limit is strictly enforced.)

It is no coincidence that Board action on FLECAC’s proposals is scheduled for a meeting in late June, after the schools have recessed for the summer and the attention of the public is on swim practices, vacations and other matters.  The same thing happened last year.

I can’t speak at Thursday’s meeting because I did so on June 13 (speakers at a Board meeting can’t speak again at the next two meetings), but I can suggest a few points that are worthy of emphasis:

• FLECAC and its proposals are not representative of the community.  FLECAC’s members are almost all progressive activists, as demonstrated by the fact that its recommendations are usually unanimous, even when they deal with highly controversial topics.
• The community does not want graphic videos to be shown to young boys and girls, or to have both sexes combined in the same sex-ed classes prior to high school, or to be confused about their sexual identity when they are generally too young to be thinking about these issues themselves.
• The community’s message on these issues has been strong and overwhelming.  Last year, over 80 percent of the respondents to a School Board survey opposed unisex classes for sex-ed prior to high school, as well as a proposal to use “sex assigned at birth” lingo in classrooms.  All categories of respondents agreed, including parents, students, FCPS employees, and other community members.
• The same opposition has been voiced this year.  The Board conducted a community survey on FLECAC’s current proposals between May 10 and June 10.  Precise data have not been released to the public (although FLECAC has been given the data), but it is clear from what has been disclosed that FLECAC is pushing an agenda that the community doesn’t think is appropriate.  (FLECAC’s summary of the survey results, which can’t completely disguise what the data show, is here and here.)
• The recent survey asked participants to identify which of 41 FLECAC proposals they wanted to comment on, but the 41 proposals weren’t described.  That’s why very few people provided comments on most of the individual proposals: They didn’t even know what the particularized recommendations were.  So, the fact that there was no feedback to the Board on recommendations ## 5, 16, 24, etc. doesn’t mean the public has no objection to some of those proposals.  Most respondents were only able to comment generally on the main themes.
• The school system shouldn’t put itself into the middle of sensitive topics where well-intentioned people hold strong, widely divergent views.  Parents and other caregivers should be respected, not supplanted by the school system.  FCPS doesn’t have all the answers concerning the upbringing of our youth.  The school system should teach that everyone is entitled to respect, and that bullying won’t be tolerated, but it shouldn’t adopt an official position on such things as whether sex is an artificial concept “assigned at birth,” etc.

Again, please participate in Thursday’s School Board meeting if you can.

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