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.  Such proposals could return next year, but this year’s respite is welcome.

Background

During the 2024-25 school year, FCPS’s Family Life Education Curriculum Advisory Committee (FLECAC) was giving favorable consideration to adding “gender identity” to the sex-ed curriculum in early elementary grades.  See “FCPS Moves Closer to Gender Ideology Instruction in Elementary Schools,” Dec. 31, 2024.  FLECAC, whose members are appointed by the School Board, has been dominated by “progressives” who favor indoctrinating students with controversial, “woke” concepts.  Indeed, two years ago the committee aggressively pushed a proposal opposed by 84% of the public.  Citizens who believe in more traditional values have been excluded almost entirely from FLECAC.  See “FCPS’s Advisory Committee ‘Reforms’ Avoided Real Reforms,” Dec. 3, 2024.

Fairfax Schools Monitor was reporting in a straightforward manner on the progress of last year’s gender-identity proposals, and was encouraging more people to attend FLECAC meetings  Transgender advocates resented this and leveled ad hominem attacks.  See V. Hall, “Why Is Family Life Education Under Attack?,” Jan. 13, 2025.  FLECAC began to receive wider attention from the public.  Then, on the eve of the March 2025 committee meeting, the School Board abruptly cancelled all FLECAC meetings for the remainder of the school year, and voted to put FLECAC under the aegis of the Superintendent, rather than under the School Board itself.  It was later revealed that the purpose of this “reform” was to allow FLECAC to avoid public scrutiny by conducting private meetings that would be closed to the public.  See “The Anti-Public Reality About FLECAC’s ‘Reform’ Is Revealed,” May 3, 2025.

FLECAC Will Not Convene This Year

Fairfax Schools Monitor was concerned that the gender-identity lessons would be added to the curriculum this year after additional, secret input from FLECAC.  But when we asked this autumn whether FLECAC meetings would occur, the Superintendent’s office informed us that no meetings would be held during the current school year, and that no changes would be made to the existing sex-ed lessons.  The explanation was that the Superintendent’s office is too busy with other pressing matters.

To be sure, this is good news.  But it doesn’t represent a permanent victory.  The transgender lobby is vocal, influential and persistent.  It will almost certainly be back next year, if not before.  Continued concern and monitoring will be important.

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