Transgender Issues
FLECAC: Good News, For Now
Fairfax Schools Monitor has learned through the Superintendent’s office that no changes will be made in the current fiscal year to the sex education curriculum in FCPS. This is good news, as most revisions in recent years have exposed young children to controversial concepts, including transgender ideology, that should not be taught in elementary grades. …
Read MoreFCPS v. Department of Education: Who Will Win?
Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS) filed suit last Friday in the federal district court in Alexandria to prevent the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) from restricting federal funding for its schools. DOE had determined that the transgender policies of FCPS and four other Northern Virginia school districts violate Title IX of the 1972 Education Amendments…
Read MoreFCPS Renews “Pilot Program” Putting Boys and Girls in Combined Sex-Ed Classes
Sex education instruction has traditionally been taught to elementary- and middle-schoolers in separate classes for boys and girls, but in the recently completed academic year FCPS implemented a controversial “pilot program” combining the two sexes. Fairfax Schools Monitor has learned that this program has been renewed for the 2025-26 academic year. Background of the Controversy…
Read MoreThe Anti-Public Reality About FLECAC’s “Reform” Is Revealed
The Fairfax County School Board, at its March 13, 2025 meeting, surprised the community by terminating the controversial Family Life Education Curriculum Advisory Committee (FLECAC) as a School Board advisory group. The move seemingly came out of nowhere. There was no prior public notice of it and hardly any discussion of it at the meeting. …
Read MoreFLECAC Is No More!!!!
In a surprise move, the Fairfax County School Board abolished its Family Life Education Curriculum Advisory Committee (FLECAC) during its March 13 meeting. This ideologically-driven body had proposed controversial additions to the sex-education curriculum every year, and the School Board had usually rubber-stamped them. This year FLECAC was poised to recommend that children in elementary…
Read MoreFLECAC Meeting Abruptly Canceled; Notice to the Public Withheld
FCPS’s Family Life Education Curriculum Advisory Committee (FLECAC) was scheduled to meet this Wednesday evening, March 12, to discuss a controversial proposal to teach elementary-grade students about “gender identity” issues as early as the 3d or 5th grade. The committee’s January and February meetings had both been canceled due to snowy roads, so public attendance…
Read MoreHow Many $$$ Will FCPS Spend to Defend Its Discrimination Against Girls?
Last week, the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights opened an investigation of Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS) and four other Virginia school systems to determine whether their transgender policies violate Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 — the federal law prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sex in education programs…
Read MoreFLECAC 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…
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