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| With all the talk about marriage and sexuality in the headlines, you might be wondering what's happening in your children's schools. What are they teaching on these topics? Here's a tool that gives you easy ways to start learning more about what's actually happening in the classroom. |
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Dear Friend,
A new school year is right around the corner and we can expect to hear a lot about protecting kids from physical threats, like bullying—and rightly so. Yet it's also vitally important to protect them emotionally and psychologically.
Sadly, when it comes to exposing students to sexually themed content, some of the worst offenders are our schools. Every year, there are new headlines about sexually explicit lessons promoted to students as young as elementary-age—whether their parents like it or not. America's schools aren't just teaching arithmetic and reading—now they've added topics like "bisexuality" and "transgenderism."
And it's getting harder for parents to keep track of what's happening in the classroom since these subjects are no longer restricted to "sex education" or health courses. Now sexual topics can be brought up at any time, in any class, under topics like "diversity" or "tolerance."
Parental awareness is critical, so Focus on the Family has created a free resource designed to help parents walk through these challenges. It's a downloadable, how-to guide entitled, Empowering Parents.
The guide includes a checklist for parents who want to know what is being taught in their child's school, plus tips on how to respond in the event questionable curricula is presented. The resource—available at truetolerance.org—also offers a "Parents Bill of Rights" which outlines the typical rights parents can expect to find when their child is in public school.
The intent behind the guide, and truetolerance.org, is to empower parents with the confidence they need to safeguard their children and protect their God-given parental rights. I hope you will access and share this important resource, especially with parents of school-age children who may need this tool in the coming days.
For faith and family,
Tom Minnery
Senior Vice President, Government & Public Policy |
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