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Proposed ‘sex ed’ curriculum infuriates parents in Omaha
LifeSiteNews ^ | 1/18/16 | Lisa Bourne

Posted on 01/18/2016 11:51:13 AM PST by wagglebee

OMAHA, Nebraska, January 18, 2016 (LifeSiteNews) – A battle over sex education in Omaha schools roiling since last year is set to come to a head soon, with the district's board of education scheduled to vote this week on proposed new Comprehensive Sex Education (CSE) standards.

The new standards are an effort to usurp parents as primary educators of their children, one parents' group says, and with the push for the standards involving Planned Parenthood and other objectionable groups, parents are crying foul.

"Our children's souls are at risk," Mark Bonkiewicz of Nebraskans for Founders' Values told LifeSiteNews. "We're not talking about subjects like math and science. We're talking about children's souls. We're talking about teaching them immoral things."

Nebraskans for Founders' Values (NFFV), through its initiative Save Nebraska Children, has booked renowned pediatrician, author, and speaker Dr. Miriam Grossman to speak about the issue and offer strategies for parents to respond to the CSE push. Grossman was scheduled to appear Sunday afternoon in Omaha.

The mindset of those behind the proposed CSEs is that parents are incapable of determining what should be taught to their children, Bonkiewicz said. "It rankles a lot of parents, as you might imagine."

The Omaha Publics Schools (OPS) Board of Education will be making a decision to accept, decline, or modify the final CSE standards given to them by the OPS Human Growth and Development (HDG) leaders on Wednesday, January 20.

Omaha Public Schools proposed changes to its HDG curriculum for grades 4-12 in the middle of last year, which include adding in lessons on abortion, "emergency contraception," LGBT issues, and gender identity.

Opposition from parents resulted in abortion and emergency contraception being removed from the proposed additions, but efforts continue for adding them back in, with parents upset over that and the new standards' sexualized nature.

A couple of Board of Education members are definitely pushing to make emergency contraception and abortion part of the OPS's curriculum, Bonkiewicz told LifeSiteNews.

A public forum on the proposed standards drew some 1,700-plus people last October, with the Archdiocese of Omaha weighing in, posting a September 22 call on its Facebook page for people to attend and oppose the new standards:

Only a strong showing of opposition by parents, grandparents, community and religious leaders to the OPS Board will block the path of this Planned Parenthood-inspired curriculum. The modern phenomenon of classroom sex education is not designed to warn kids away from permissive and harmful sex experiences. Rather, what they really aim at is breaking down traditional morality and sexual inhibitions in favor of actually encouraging sexual experiences

These sex education programs are in no way any solution, but rather are a significant part of the problem of today's sexual permissiveness – for when new attitudes about sex are purveyed in the classroom and under the authority of the school, the kids can be affected more decisively than they are affected by the sexual permissiveness they regularly encounter in the media.

Bonkiewicz told LifeSiteNews that while the archdiocese does have its own schools, there is a recognition that a majority of Catholic students are educated in public schools.

Aside from the issue of content of the proposed OPS CSEs, parents are troubled by the various pro-abortion groups behind the CSEs, including, aside from Planned Parenthood, Advocates for Youth, Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States (SIECUS), and the Rutgers University-sponsored "comprehensive sexuality education" advocacy initiative ANSWER.

Also involved is the Women's Fund of Omaha, whose executive director is a former Planned Parenthood director and has an adolescent health project that advocates "medically-accurate, age-appropriate comprehensive sexuality education in all middle and high schools utilizing WISE (Working to Institutionalize Sex Ed)." The Women's Fund also promotes "safe sex practices" and works to "increase access to long-acting reversible contraception (LARC)."

The WISE strategy is designed to get such curricula in schools, John Dockery, also of NFFV, told LifeSiteNews, including offering advice on how to handle opposition to the curriculum. 

Dockery pointed out how it's a common tactic to promote CSE programs with the claim that they are age-appropriate, medically accurate, and evidence-based.

"Who determines 'age appropriate'?" he asked. "Planned Parenthood? It's a whole indoctrination thing that starts at an early age."

The opposition to the CSE remained heated at the January 4 board meeting, which Dockery told LifeSiteNews lasted three hours.

Omaha parent Kathryn Russell told the Board of Education at that meeting it had a moral a moral decision to make.

"But the curriculum you have, the standards you have, gives too much information," she said, according to a report from JournalStar.com. "It rapes children of their innocence. Information is important, but this gives too much information."

Russell's remarks drew loud applause, the report said, but there are some who don't see an issue with the OPS proposed CSEs.

"Comprehensive sexual education is important for every single one of my peers. It is important to have all of the information in order to make an educated decision regarding my body and how to take care of it," said Ryleigh Welsh, a sophomore at a local high school. "I have a right to this information."

While there have been periods of public comment and at least one survey taken for input from the public, Dockery said the school system and board's movements in the area of sex education have not been completely transparent. Since the proposed CSE standards have generated the reaction they have from parents, that has begun to change.

"The transparency of what they've been doing has not been very good," Dockery said.

This was fueled by OPS's participation in an October 30 event titled "Get Real: Let's Talk About Sex (ed.)" on the University of Nebraska Omaha campus, where hundreds of students from all OPS high schools and one of its middle schools received a "goodie bag" containing a dozen-plus condoms, sexual lubricant, and a dental dam for oral sex.

A student who was present spoke with NFFV and called the day a "sex concentration camp," saying as well he thought it was sponsored by Planned Parenthood because the abortion giant's signage, displays, and material were available everywhere.

Co-ed teams, the student said, were apparently pressured to take part in a co-ed relay race to put a condom on and off a dildo.

Students were reportedly transported on OPS busses, and OPS teacher chaperones were present. The goodie bag displayed the local Methodist hospital's logo, and Methodist Hospital representatives are believed to have been at the event.

The student said he learned of the sex camp from a teacher and that the first 100 kids who signed up were to get free movie tickets. A digital permission slip given to student for parents to sign did not include any details of the event.

The sex camp took place ten days after the October 20 OPS community forum on the proposed new standards. The school district distributed Comprehensive Sex Education (CSE) FAQs, NFFV representatives said, which stated in part, "Planned Parenthood has not been a part of our curriculum in the past nor will it be in the future," and "OPS does not permit the distribution of contraceptives."

After word of the sex camp event got out, OPS officials said the event did not align with its standards, according to the Omaha World-Herald, and principals called parents to apologize.

"Everybody wants to trust their schools," Dockery told LifeSiteNews. "Everybody wants to trust their public officials," but clearly this isn't always a given.

The key is making sure people are aware of the facts. "Parents need to be educated. They need to find out. They really need to know the truth."

Everybody is busy these days, Dockery continued, and it often means parents end up leaving many aspects of their children's education completely up to others. But, he said, "this area of sexual education, they can no longer rely on schools to teach it."

Bonkiewicz concurred, expressing the idea behind the NFFV group's standing up against the sex ed curriculum: "Who's going to protect our children and our grandchildren?"


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Nebraska
KEYWORDS: arth; education; homosexualagenda; moralabsolutes; nebraska; plannedparenthood; publiceducation; sexed; sexeducation; sexpositiveaganda
A student who was present spoke with NFFV and called the day a "sex concentration camp," saying as well he thought it was sponsored by Planned Parenthood because the abortion giant's signage, displays, and material were available everywhere.

Co-ed teams, the student said, were apparently pressured to take part in a co-ed relay race to put a condom on and off a dildo.

It just keeps getting sicker.

1 posted on 01/18/2016 11:51:14 AM PST by wagglebee
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2 posted on 01/18/2016 11:51:51 AM PST by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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To: metmom
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3 posted on 01/18/2016 11:52:34 AM PST by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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To: wagglebee

Grandma used to say the best birth control was one aspirin held firmly between a young lady’s knees.


4 posted on 01/18/2016 12:07:17 PM PST by Resolute Conservative
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To: wagglebee
Effective contraception.

1. SAYING NO!

2. An Aspirin CLENCHED Firmly Between your Knees..

3. A vengeful Brother who will Beat the Crap out of anyone who violates His Sister.

5 posted on 01/18/2016 12:08:15 PM PST by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
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To: wagglebee

Who wants to talk to children about sex?

Pedophiles.


6 posted on 01/18/2016 12:15:41 PM PST by donna (Radicalized Christians become missionaries; then, they tell everyone that Jesus loves them!)
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To: wagglebee

If people want to change things they need to pull their children out of public schools.
Public schools are funded by how many children attend.

Pull them out and either home school or send them to private schools.

And for heavens sake vote “NO” every single time the public schools want more money.


7 posted on 01/18/2016 12:22:27 PM PST by Lera (1 Corinthians 15:3-4)
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To: wagglebee
Comprehensive Sex Education

Not to be crude, but when a school district uses the word 'comprehensive' in this context, you can bet anal will be a topic covered in detail.

8 posted on 01/18/2016 12:47:13 PM PST by The Iceman Cometh (Trumpbots Vs. Cruznadians - the struggle is real.)
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To: Resolute Conservative

That has been replaced by abortion on demand.


9 posted on 01/18/2016 12:48:17 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (Liberals are the Taliban of America, trying to tear down any symbol that they don't like.)
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To: wagglebee

Oh it’s been this sick for awhile


10 posted on 01/18/2016 12:49:47 PM PST by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: donna
Who wants to talk to children about sex?

yup. 50 years ago, people would have received a sound beating for doing what PP is trying to accomplish here. Not everything about The Good Old Days was good, but I'm fine with that little bit of it.

I thank God every day for the wonderfully conservative community that I live in, and simultaneously am vigilant for the barbarians at the gates.

11 posted on 01/18/2016 1:25:58 PM PST by wbill
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I don’t see much wrong with standards - send your kid to a public school, they OWN the kid. Like it or not, government pays the salaries, so government WILL get what they want. So just suck it up and try your best to deprogram your kid every day.

(p.s., I’ve given up on trying to convince FReepers to stay clear of public schools...it’s hopeless)


12 posted on 01/18/2016 2:31:27 PM PST by BobL (Who cares? He's going to build a wall and stop this invasion.)
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13 posted on 01/18/2016 2:44:57 PM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: wagglebee
It is important to have all of the information in order to make an educated decision regarding my body and how to take care of it," said Ryleigh Welsh, a sophomore at a local high school. "I have a right to this information."

She can find the information any time at her age. Why does this 14 year old want it pushed on young children? Her brain cannot grasp the notion that parents are the primary educator and her teachers are there at the sufferance of the parents. At least, that's the theory. We all know the teacher's unions are the enforcer for the NEA mob.

14 posted on 01/18/2016 3:58:22 PM PST by raybbr (Obamacare needs a deatha panel)
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To: wagglebee
It's a whole indoctrination thing that starts at an early age.” ( from the article)
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It's purpose is to destroy the child's natural ( and very protective) modesty.

With modesty destroyed the child is more vulnerable to be the victim of abuse from an adult or child of the same age or more prone to be the abuser.

15 posted on 01/18/2016 6:09:42 PM PST by wintertime (Stop treating government teachers like they are reincarnated Mother Teresas!)
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Also.....Where is the outrage from all those so-called “good” teachers that everyone seems to know or be married to? Huh?

Hm?....(Silence)....I guess there are as many “good” teachers as there are “moderate” Muslims. There is a difference between Muslims and teachers. If the teachers speak out and move to defend the virtue of their students, no one is going to behead them.

16 posted on 01/18/2016 6:13:27 PM PST by wintertime (Stop treating government teachers like they are reincarnated Mother Teresas!)
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To: wbill
I thank God every day for the wonderfully conservative community
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Translation:
My child's school is different.

Please remember that nearly every teacher in this nation ( both private and government school) were trained by godless Marxists in Marxist run colleges and universities. That training seeps into the classroom regardless of whether a community is conservative or liberal.

Personally I pray the God will save our nation. I am not hopeful.

1) Abortion
Millions of conservatives can show up to buy a Chick-fil-A but just can't seem to figure out how to bring and end to the slaughter. Really?

2) Godless and socialist government schooling
Children in godless classrooms WILL learn to think and reason godlessly. They must just to cooperate in the godless classroom. How could it be otherwise? It is evil to do this to children.

Children in socialist-entitlement K-12 schools risk learning to be comfortable with socialism. Gee! If the voting mob can give a child tuition-free schooling why not use that mob to get lots of “free” stuff? Again it is evil to do this to children.

17 posted on 01/18/2016 6:23:10 PM PST by wintertime (Stop treating government teachers like they are reincarnated Mother Teresas!)
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To: wagglebee

Middle school students? Now middle school are from 11 to 13 (average), so why should they be there. If parents did that, they would have DCF visiting along with the police, with the parents being charged with contributing to the delinquency of a minor.


18 posted on 01/19/2016 11:57:49 AM PST by ExCTCitizen (I'm ExCTCitizen and I approve this reply. If it does offend Libs, I'm NOT sorry...)
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