Sexual Identity
FLECAC Controversy Heats Up With False Accusations
A recent post on this site, “FCPS Moves Closer to Gender Ideology Instruction in Elementary Schools,” has precipitated an all-out attack from one member of FCPS’s Family Life Education Curriculum Advisory Committee (FLECAC). The article, posted on the 4PublicEducation website, is filled with ad hominem claims against the editor of this blog as well as…
Read MoreFLECAC Meeting Cancelled– Rescheduled to February 12
My post of December 31 stated that the next meeting of the FCPS Family Life Education Curriculum Advisory Committee (FLECAC) would be this evening, January 8. Due to the weather, it has been cancelled. The next committee meeting will be the regularly-scheduled February meeting, on the 12th, from 7 to 9 p.m. at FCPS…
Read MoreFCPS Moves Closer to Gender Ideology Instruction in Elementary Schools
The Fairfax County FLECAC (“Family Life Education Curriculum Advisory Committee”) was asked by this year’s School Board to “explore instruction on gender identity in elementary school.” There was little doubt from the outset where the “exploration” would lead because, as reported previously, FLECAC’s membership in recent years has consistently pushed controversial, “progressive” proposals. FLECAC meetings…
Read MoreFCPS’s Advisory Committee “Reforms” Avoided Real Reform
Earlier this year, the Fairfax County School Board made several changes to its policies and procedures relating to its Community Advisory Committees, but the Board didn’t address the most important problem with these bodies: They tend to echo the preexisting views of Board members rather than being a source of independent advice. Background Over the…
Read MoreAlert: FCPS Students Will Be Automatically Enrolled in Unpopular Unisex Sex-Ed Classes Unless Parents Opt Out Soon.
In 2022-23, when transgender advocates urged the Fairfax County School Board to eliminate gender-separate sex-ed classes for boys and girls, 84% of the community opposed the idea in a public survey. The School Board therefore ducked the issue and didn’t vote on it. Nonetheless, FCPS administrators thereafter quietly decided to proceed with a version of…
Read MoreMore Citizens Express Concerns about School Board Actions
The Fairfax County School Board and FCPS administrators have become increasingly contemptuous of its constituents. As reported in recent posts on this site, they have recently enacted highly controversial measures, ignoring the results of their own surveys showing massive opposition by the community. For inexplicable reasons, the Board and the administration seem to care principally…
Read MoreSchool Board’s Contempt for Parents on Full Display
A perceptive journalist, Stephanie Lundquist-Arora, just eliminated a project I had planned for today. I intended to write an article about last week’s meeting of the Fairfax County School Board at which the Board once again dismissed the results of a community survey because the results were not to its liking. The Board also decided,…
Read MoreImportant 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…
Read MoreUnisex Sex-Ed Classes Are Being Implemented in FCPS Elementary and Middle Schools
The Fairfax County public school system (FCPS) has one of the most far-reaching transgender policies in the nation. Under it a student can change his or her name and gender-indicative pronouns without parental consent, and all other students and school personnel must use those altered designations. If a student exhibits gender dysphoria at school, FCPS…
Read MoreKarl Frisch’s Sacred Texts
On December 13 the recently elected members of the Fairfax County School Board were sworn into office. The incoming Chair, Karl Frisch, is pictured above as he took his oath. What are the texts Frisch’s left hand rests on? They don’t include the Bible, the Torah, the Koran or other sacred books commonly used when…
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