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Victory: Outraged California Parents Block Radical Elementary Sex Ed

Doug Mainwaring : May 7, 2018  LifeSiteNews.com

"There's a difference between educational and explicit. The way this is written, it is explicit. It makes it seem like having a sexual relationship at that age is OK. It is not ... You make it look like it is very normal. It is not normal at that age." -Vijay Ghanta, parent of a second-grader

(Fremont, CA)—[LifeSiteNews.com] Concerned parents have successfully fought against the implementation of a controversial new sex education program for elementary school children. (Image: via LifeSiteNews)

After a marathon meeting, with testimonies and discussion stretching until 2:30 AM Thursday, California's Fremont Unified School District board voted against the controversial sex ed curriculum.

What had so many parents concerned is that the new program, known as the "Three R's: Rights, Respect, Responsibility," would have taught elementary school students about sexual orientation, gender identity and rape.

The school district now finds itself at odds with California state law—the Healthy Youth Act, enacted in 2016—which mandates the teaching of those topics, and more, to students in grades 4-6.

While the controversial program was voted down for elementary school students, the school board voted to adopt it for grades 7 through 9.

"There's a difference between educational and explicit. The way this is written, it is explicit," said Vijay Ghanta, parent of a second-grader, according to mercurynews.com.

"It makes it seem like having a sexual relationship at that age is OK. It is not ... You make it look like it is very normal. It is not normal at that age."

"There's been a misconception from the very beginning that this group is really just a bunch of prudes, and we're against sex education in total, that's not true," according to another parent in the mercurynews.com report. "What we're really saying is that we don't like the 3Rs curriculum because it's too explicit"...

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