The Lion
A parental rights group has raised alarms over a shocking sexual education curriculum for Chicago public-school students featuring unlicensed “health educators.”
The curriculum identifies female and male body parts in kindergarten, tackles gender identity by 1st grade, and explains puberty blocker medications by 5th grade, according to documents uncovered by Parents Defending Education.
“Parents deserve to know their children are learning academics in school, not having their class time wasted with useless and divisive content,” Michele Exner, a senior adviser for PDE, says in an interview with Fox News.
Even teachers have reportedly cited discomfort over the lessons, as the district has brought in “health educators” to teach sex ed classes, according to Chalkboard News.
“While Chicago Public Schools (CPS) mandates comprehensive sex education for all schools, we know that many teachers don’t have the training or comfort level to implement this,” reads one listing for a position at Lakeview/Gale Elementary School.
‘Hardcore queer theory’
The lessons proclaim a clear political agenda to students, says Rhyen Staley, who researched and exposed the sex ed curriculum on behalf of PDE.
“You can start to see the process where they just slowly inch the kids and nudge the kids in the direction of hardcore queer theory,” she explains. “That’s why, by the time you get to 5th grade, you see that they are starting to teach the kids about transgenderism and puberty blockers.”
At the 1st-grade level, the curriculum instructs children to “name at least two things they’ve been taught about gender role stereotypes, and how those things may limit people of all genders.”
Second-graders learn how to “advocate for change” regarding gender stereotypes, while 4th-graders have a “Gender Snowperson” to help them “explore the concepts of gender identity, sexual orientation, sex assigned at birth, and gender expression.”
Meanwhile, children enrolled in CPS are failing to meet basic academic requirements. Reading proficiency lags at 31% for all elementary students, while math proficiency is at 19%.
“Only one in six 3rd-graders in Chicago can read at grade level,” Exner says. “How about the individuals in charge at CPS focus on carrying out the basic requirements of their jobs, instead of using their taxpayer-funded positions to push a radical activist agenda on children as young as 4 years old?”
‘Parents/guardians as the primary educators’
Both state law and CPS acknowledge parental rights to review sex ed materials “from grades K-12,” according to Chalkboard…
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