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Parents Angry After School Tells 13-year-olds They Can Be Intimate, Choosegender by haibe(m): 12:18pm On Dec 16, 2014
Students at one northern California high school are
learning more than just the birds and the bees.

Along with local area groups, some parents are irate
that their children’s sex ed class at Acalanes High
School in Lafayette is being taught by employees of
Planned Parenthood without their prior knowledge.
They are also fuming over the methods and materials
being used, including a checklist that asks students if
they are “ready for sex” and another worksheet that
describes how to give and obtain consent, as well as a
diagram that uses a "genderbread" person for lessons
in gender identity.

“[Parents] are very concerned,” Brad Dacus,
president of the Pacific Justice Institute, a non-
profit legal organization that is assisting the
concerned parents, told FoxNews.com. “Planned
Parenthood is not exactly the best when it comes to
putting young people first.
“They get more grants from the promiscuity of
children,” he added. “The material they have
provided was material that mirrored their agenda.”

“They get more grants from the
promiscuity of children. The material
they have provided was material that
mirrored their agenda.”

- Brad Dacus, Pacific Justice Institute


It was the parents of ninth-graders at Acalanes that
started raising questions after their children told
them one instructor threw a model of female
reproductive organs at one student and that many
felt the sessions were pressuring them to have sex.
“Some of the kids were distracted because it was
divergent from what they were taught at home,” Dacus
said.
Acalanes Union School District officials told the
institute the class was not taught by teachers but
rather the staff from a local Planned Parenthood in
nearby Walnut Creek.

Included in the materials provided to students were
documents and worksheets that included a checklist
entitled, “Sex Check! Are You Ready For Sex?” in which
the 13 and 14-year-old students are asked questions
such as if they have water–based lubricants and
condoms and if they could handle a possible infection
or pregnancy. Another worksheet reads like a how-to
on obtaining consent from a possible sexual partner
and offers possible statements like “Do you want to go
back to my place?” and “Is it OK if I take my pants
off?”

They were also taught about gender identity with the
“Genderbread Person,” a play on the name of the
holiday cookie, to teach them on how to identify
themselves as either, “agender,” “bigender,” and “two
spirit” to name a few.

“Our daughter took this course two years ago, after
being provided the opportunity to opt out of the class,”
John Lyons, whose two children attend AHS, told
FoxNews.com. “The opt-out form provided a handful
of bullet points about what the course would cover.
After completing the course, it was apparent that some
of what was ‘taught’ went beyond what was
represented on the opt-out form. This is disappointing
to us, because we are actually strong supporters of
teen sex education in a peer environment to
complement our home-based discussions.”

Lyons added that he and his wife were dismayed by
how the students were instructed. He said valuable and
factual information was delivered in a manner that
seemed to promote Planned Parenthood's agenda
regarding 'social justice' through sex education of
teens.”

Officials for the Planned Parenthood’s Northern
California region did not respond to requests for
comment.
Parents in the district have started a petition that has
garnered over 100 signatures and have asked that AHS
provide a sex ed preview course offered live to parents
by the same person who teaches the kids, prior to their
taking the course, to give parents the full disclosure
and knowledge necessary to make an informed
decision regarding their child's participation. So far,
the school has not responded to their requests. They
are also asking for the school system to develop and
implement their own curriculum.
The Pacific Justice Institute has warned Acalanes
Union High School District it may be in violation of the
law.

“We have not seen any documentation to indicate that
distribution of the surveys complied with either
Federal law of the California Education Code as to
parental notification,” reads a section of PJI’s letter,
citing that a federal amendment on the protection of
pupil rights states that schools must acquire written
parental consent before a student is required to
participate in surveys, analysis, or evaluations.

The also reference a California education code that
contains the same requirements.

“Notably, the law does not merely require notice; it
requires specific parental permission for this type of
survey to be administered,” reads the letter.
Officials for the Acalanes Union High School District
did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
A number of parents are expected to come out in force
to a public district meeting on Wednesday to demand
that their concerns be addressed.
Re: Parents Angry After School Tells 13-year-olds They Can Be Intimate, Choosegender by haibe(m): 12:19pm On Dec 16, 2014
Students at Acalanes High School in Northern
California were given this gender identity chart in a
sex ed class conducted by the local Planned
Parenthood chapter.

Re: Parents Angry After School Tells 13-year-olds They Can Be Intimate, Choosegender by haibe(m): 12:20pm On Dec 16, 2014
The 13 and 14-year old Students were also given these
worksheets which some parents took offense to.

Re: Parents Angry After School Tells 13-year-olds They Can Be Intimate, Choosegender by haibe(m): 12:21pm On Dec 16, 2014
Re: Parents Angry After School Tells 13-year-olds They Can Be Intimate, Choosegender by LordReed(m): 7:25pm On Dec 16, 2014
This is a terrible! For 13-14 yr olds? No way. They need to totally change the content of this sex Ed.
Re: Parents Angry After School Tells 13-year-olds They Can Be Intimate, Choosegender by haibe(m): 7:52am On Dec 17, 2014
LordReed:
This is a terrible! For 13-14 yr olds? No way. They need to totally change the content of this sex Ed.
Same thought here, it's very terrible.

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