By DAVID BOYLE
The Fairbanks North Star Borough School Board voted down a controversial “supplement” to its new health curriculum while approving a new health book.
The supplement included subjects such as gender identity, sexual orientations, and romantic orientations. These pages are from the supplement:
The testimony was divided into two camps: parents who voiced strong opposition to the supplement; and educators who believed they knew what was best for other’s children.
Most of the community testimony opposed the controversial supplement. One person said, “It tells lies. It says that there are more than two genders, and that is a lie.”
He closed his testimony by saying, “If you want your children to learn about sexual deviation, you should send them to (Jeffrey) Epstein’s Island.”
Another citizen said that instead of purchasing a new health book, the money should be used for the literacy training program required by the Alaska Reads Act. It seems this parent would like the district to focus on what matters — getting children reading at grade level.
A North Pole resident said that the supplement “shook me to the core” and stated it was definitely not middle school material. She warned that parents would be removing their kids from the district if this supplement becomes part of the curriculum.
A supporter of the new health book stated that abortion should also be included in the curriculum because it is not in the new health book.
Further discussion by the board showed the controversial supplement to the health book was in the teachers’ lounges for an entire week for their review. Parents seemed to have less access than the teachers.
The board was divided into those who believed that LGBTQ material in the supplement should be included in the health curriculum and those who strongly opposed the supplement inclusion.
Board member Erin Morotti said that failing to acknowledge LGBTQ identities is to “essentially erase them.” And “To erase someone is to deny their humanity and therefore their human rights.” She was all-in for the supplement.
Member April Smith said she was voting “yes” for the new health book even though the health book did not represent her values. However, the book did represent her community. She further said that the district could not afford the controversy the supplement would create in the community. This supplement would cost public trust in the district. She voted “no” to the supplement.
Members Timothy Doran, a former principal, and Brandy Harty, a former teacher, both supported the supplement being included in the health curriculum.
The discussion finally devolved into whether students would have access to the supplement. District staff said that students would not have access to the supplement unless the teacher gave access to it. A contradiction that implied that teachers would have the final say, not parents.
That would leave the door wide open for the teachers to openly share the material covered in the supplement.
A student could have access to the controversial supplement without parental permission because the supplement is not in the parents’ permission slip. And a teacher could assign material out of the supplement.
After many rounds of voting on amendments to adding the supplement and several reconsideration votes, the board voted on the new health curriculum without including the supplement.
The board voted 4 to 3 on excluding the controversial supplement. Voting “yes” were Burnett, Matheson, Smith, and Sanderson. Voting “no” (and to include the supplement) were Dorn, Harty, and Morotti.
The board voted 4 to 3 to adopt the new health book without the supplement, supporting the community’s parents.
Perhaps, now the school board could move on to educating our children in math and reading — life-long skills needed for success in life.
wtf
how is this in kids schools?
It’s amazing how desperately the left wants to sexualize your children.
Just in case you missed it, the + in LGBTQ+ stands for pedophile.
The first thing you see when looking at the photo of the ridiculous ‘supplement’ is that it appears to have been written by out of work psychologists that spent the summers of their youth at Bolshevist/Marxist indoctrination camps, and upon having suddenly found work they are finally pulling it all together so that everyone can while away their time entertaining their psychotic notions.
Consider that on the face of it, “Cisgender” is a crazy person’s slur for people that have their head on straight. Tell them in no uncertain terms to go be crazy in the corner, we are not having it.
Like it or not, parents, these are some of the subjects you need to discuss with your kids, on your own. There is no place in schools for this to be taught to underage kids. So, while I’m disappointed that the vote was not unanimous, it was still a good decision.
Not enabling or promoting someone’s emotional dysfunction is not erasing them, it is caring for them with honesty and truth. These teachers and community members that believe such things have bought a lie. I do wonder if they would stand by and encourage a young person dealing with body image issues leading to bulimia or anorexia, to binge, vomit or starve? The gender dysphoria is a sexual deviation and a mental emotional condition that has become a sociological contagion in part by being pushed and promotes by the LGBTQ cult agenda. If I had kids attending school in the Fairbanks district I would certainly do what I could to keep them out of the classrooms of the teachers promoting and believing this stuff.
The poster in the lede image is terrifying. Straight, no chaser totalitarianism.
“Lead image”
There is no such word as “lede”.
Sorry, you’re wrong. Use a dictionary.
Lede: The introductory portion of a news story, especially the first sentence.
…….Not until more Fairbanks parents choose to follow those who already pulled their kids from the school when Northstar school district get back to the basics of education. the old school stuff that Laura Ingalls Wilder grew up learning, the education that made leaders. In the meantime you know be helpful to other Fairbanks parents who still want to pull their kids from the schools but they have to work. The Christian service is that stay at home mama homeschooling her own kids adding that family member or neighbor’s child she knows to help that parent disappointed by public school homeschool her child while the parent work. If Northstar school district is going to hurt badly for its sin to corrupt the kids, then it’s got to be a community effort and homeschool as a co-op homeschooling movement that families even churches will do the Christian service and add another child to their family because of that child’s family must work. Earlier today I had to shut off Dr dobson’s broadcast because of it annoyed me. this reason not enough Christian mamas as his guest even think about adding another child to their homeschooling if it’ll help a single parent or grandparents protect their child. Its easy to homeschool your own child, parents will run into a burning building to save their child. If the child is someone else’s, its too much of a sacrifice. For the Christian our prayer time, our devotions , our church attendance is supposed to be training us be more like Jesus to serve others while we go about our daily tasks. If one can stay at home to homeschooling, then why not open the home to partner with another parent friend God has sent them who still has their child attending public school and make an offer if they want to partner to homeschool their child.
We homeschooled – very successfully. Jen, don’t ever believe it is easy – it is very hard work, and very time consuming. Perhaps there are some who would be willing to offer co-op schooling, and I’d be thankful for those, but I suspect it will be very rare. The biggest issue will be authority to discipline.
Exactly!!! It should NOT be in kids schools!!!
The concept of “identity”, particularly when it is afforded some official status, is a delusion and a fantasy. At bottom it is an irrational falsehood. “Identify” as a blue space woman, raccoon or garage door; I don’t care. But DO NOT expect or require me to buy into your delusion. Time to just stop. And stop sexualizing kids.
The Teachers and administrators doing all this need to be charged with child abuse and jailed. What kinda person would be proud to say they are involved in this sickening stuff , they would certainly be mentally ill and a danger to any community . Who are the parents that are ok with this stuff, is there any? When did so many in education Feild become predators, this is very strange people !!!
Putting all of these ideas in children’s heads at a young age is no different than indoctrination of a belief, which is not held by most people. We do not indoctrinate our children in this country with religion, political dogma or other personal ideas. It is no different than forcing religion or communism into the school agenda. The children will be able to make personal decisions soon enough as adults. Let them just be children for now and teach them to read, write, and do math. If there’s any molding, that would be a parent’s responsibility. As far as creating new words and acronyms to try to normalize an abnormal condition, we have had enough. These people should exercise their right to be different and learn to leave the rest of us alone. Nobody cares. No special recognition for being different. Have fun. But get out of my face about it.
Trig, the social pathology of sexual deviancy requires them to be in-your-face and be allowed access to your kids to promote their “accepted” identities. The only way to put this evil genie back in its bottle requires a level of violence I don’t want to promote – but I’m sickened by what is happening. There is a big difference between tolerance and being kind, compared to public display, promotion, and child abuse.
The very same people who are telling you that an 18 year old is not mature enough, and does not have sufficient life experience to understand the long term consequences of a student loan, are also telling you a five year old is mature enough and can understand the long term consequences of changing their gender.
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But, you are not supposed to notice that.
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