fcps family life education

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Anonymous wrote:Last night they put off voting on the ideology piece.

The pilot program for coed is happening. Are the schools listed anywhere?

Not yet. Stay tuned. This was a back-door, unilateral district administrative effort (led by Michelle Reid) that had little to no community support. They will try to introduce the pilot program this academic year to those 14 elementary schools quietly and then claim success so that they can expand co-ed sex-ed for young children across the district in 2025-2026 without a school board vote. That's what "transparency" and "inclusion" mean in FCPS.

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Anonymous wrote:Last night they put off voting on the ideology piece.

The pilot program for coed is happening. Are the schools listed anywhere?

I read that they approved teaching gender ideology to 7th graders.

https://wjla.com/news/local/fairfax-county-public-schools-board-fcps-gender-identity-sex-education-class-elementary-middle-school-students-vote-7th-graders-parents-family-life-education-curriculum-advisory-committee

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Last night they put off voting on the ideology piece.

The pilot program for coed is happening. Are the schools listed anywhere?

I read that they approved teaching gender ideology to 7th graders.

https://wjla.com/news/local/fairfax-county-public-schools-board-fcps-gender-identity-sex-education-class-elementary-middle-school-students-vote-7th-graders-parents-family-life-education-curriculum-advisory-committee

That’s really disturbing. There’s no basis in fact for these concepts and they have no business introducing these concepts in school. I can’t believe this is what the board is working on instead of the gazillion other issues the district has around instruction, discipline and teacher retention.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Last night they put off voting on the ideology piece.

The pilot program for coed is happening. Are the schools listed anywhere?

I read that they approved teaching gender ideology to 7th graders.

https://wjla.com/news/local/fairfax-county-public-schools-board-fcps-gender-identity-sex-education-class-elementary-middle-school-students-vote-7th-graders-parents-family-life-education-curriculum-advisory-committee

The article (if you can call it that) says it was discussed/recommended, not passed.

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Did they send out any notice to the parents asking for their input on the matter before it even being a discussion in the board. I'm very disturbed at this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Did they send out any notice to the parents asking for their input on the matter before it even being a discussion in the board. I'm very disturbed at this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Did they send out any notice to the parents asking for their input on the matter before it even being a discussion in the board. I'm very disturbed at this.

You have the ability to email the SB whenever you like. This has been a topic for at least 6 months.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Did they send out any notice to the parents asking for their input on the matter before it even being a discussion in the board. I'm very disturbed at this.

You have the ability to email the SB whenever you like. This has been a topic for at least 6 months.

In your opinion, what difference would that make exactly? After all, along with the Superintendent, they disregarded the results of the survey.

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Anonymous wrote:Did they send out any notice to the parents asking for their input on the matter before it even being a discussion in the board. I'm very disturbed at this.

You have the ability to email the SB whenever you like. This has been a topic for at least 6 months.

In your opinion, what difference would that make exactly? After all, along with the Superintendent, they disregarded the results of the survey.

Were you the one asking about giving input? If so, then the question was answered.

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Anonymous wrote:Did they send out any notice to the parents asking for their input on the matter before it even being a discussion in the board. I'm very disturbed at this.

You have the ability to email the SB whenever you like. This has been a topic for at least 6 months.

In your opinion, what difference would that make exactly? After all, along with the Superintendent, they disregarded the results of the survey.

It’s a local gaffe, that will garner national attention, and get another Republican elected. The last time they were dismissive of parental rights, Youngkin was elected. Now that they are doubling down with ‘parental waivers’ that waive the requirements for any researchers to notify parents if they have researchers interacting with their children in school, in this case, recording the results from this social experiment for Co-Ed sex ed destined to fail, they will get Trump in office as a result.

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Anonymous wrote:Did they send out any notice to the parents asking for their input on the matter before it even being a discussion in the board. I'm very disturbed at this.

You have the ability to email the SB whenever you like. This has been a topic for at least 6 months.

In your opinion, what difference would that make exactly? After all, along with the Superintendent, they disregarded the results of the survey.

It’s a local gaffe, that will garner national attention, and get another Republican elected. The last time they were dismissive of parental rights, Youngkin was elected. Now that they are doubling down with ‘parental waivers’ that waive the requirements for any researchers to notify parents if they have researchers interacting with their children in school, in this case, recording the results from this social experiment for Co-Ed sex ed destined to fail, they will get Trump in office as a result.

There’s no more swing voters, everyone knows who they’re voting for, this won’t sway anyone.

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Anonymous wrote:Did they send out any notice to the parents asking for their input on the matter before it even being a discussion in the board. I'm very disturbed at this.

You have the ability to email the SB whenever you like. This has been a topic for at least 6 months.

In your opinion, what difference would that make exactly? After all, along with the Superintendent, they disregarded the results of the survey.

It’s a local gaffe, that will garner national attention, and get another Republican elected. The last time they were dismissive of parental rights, Youngkin was elected. Now that they are doubling down with ‘parental waivers’ that waive the requirements for any researchers to notify parents if they have researchers interacting with their children in school, in this case, recording the results from this social experiment for Co-Ed sex ed destined to fail, they will get Trump in office as a result.

There’s no more swing voters, everyone knows who they’re voting for, this won’t sway anyone.

I am a swing voter and in most elections I vote a split ticket. I vote for/against the specific candidates and I ignore political parties.

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Anonymous wrote:There was not a survey. There was an email address in 2023 that anti-LGBTQ people spammed nationwide ("we need to get the whole country involved in FCPS" was Jeff Hoffmann's quote). Even then it had a only a couple of thousand responses. The written comments were almost all non-responsive and just gross anti-LGBTQ hate. The total number of people who said that they were "FCPS Parents" was fewer than 40. There are around 360,000 parents in FCPS. 40/360000 is not 80%. Fake number, fake news. This junk piece of "data" needs to end here.

Raises hand. I am an FCPS parent and responded to the FLE survey about combining genders. I said there were many problems with the idea, including some specifics, and they shouldn't do it.

And they didn't make the change, as they had said they would.

A survey is a scientific instrument that determines information about a population. There was no such thing. There was a Google Form that certain candidates for school board worked to be spammed nationally. Sure, there were some responses from within the county. Most of the responses to the open-access Google Form that you are calling a survey came from outside Fairfax County.

Explain how spammers allegedly accessed the student’s and staff’s accounts because their responses, which overwhelmingly opposed the proposed changes, were done through the secured laptops issued by the county, and NO ONE other than the students and staff had accessed to their devices. The fact of the matter is that your theory falls apart because students and staff comprised 2/3 of the input, proving that there was not such outside intrusion.

You are making stuff up. The survey form was an open form on the FCPS website. Anyone and everyone could access it. And they did. Stop lying.

I don’t know about you, but my child accessed the survey via the school issued laptop, as did other kids in the class. And, you must not be familiar with FCPS, but there are plenty of kids whose only access to a computer is the one issued by the county, which is supposed to be protected against hacking - which is what you are implying happened in this case. Same with school staff who participated in the survey. As for the parents, I used my own device to provide my input once. And, I trust that others did the same. It might be hard for you to believe it, but not everyone is in the business of rigging outcomes.

It is entirely possible that you are arguing with one of Karl Frisch's out of state California political activists who are not from FCPS and have zero idea how this district works.

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Anonymous wrote:Make it 'opt-in' solves the issue.

THIS^^^^

Pilot one "opt in" coed class per school with informed consent that the parents must sign that details the topics that will be taught in the grade.

Also include that the teacher will possibly be the opposite sex of the child, so gorls might be taught menstruation and nocturnal emissions from Mr. Frank the PE teacher.

Then keep track of how many parents opt their kids into the coed class.

I suspect the number of parents choosing coed over single sex/traditional gender will be close to zero.

Those who want to kill sex education in schools always push for the "opt in." It is an argument that sounds reasonable, but is intended to undermine the education of our kids.

Not opt-in sex ed. Opt-in coed sex ed. And default separated sex ed.

This!!

Make the coed pilot program opt in.

Keep the standard the traditional class.

See how many opt in.

I suspect that even in the bluest neighborhoods, very few families will pick coed sex ed.

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Anonymous wrote:There isn’t an upcoming vote. They’ve decided to keep genders separate for next year thankfully.

It looks like they are combining genders for family life education in the pilot program.

The low income ESOL families have some of the most traditional families.

This is a twrrible idea.

If fcps is going to combine boys and girls for sex ed, it needs to be in the wealthiest bluest communities in northern Virginia, not the poor immigrant communities.

Pilot it in the wealthy neighborhoods with the greatest percentage of democrat votes. I am sure those neighborhoods will be thrilled to have boys and hirls together for 5th-8th grade sex ed.

OMG boys and girls learning about boobies together and boy parts. OMG OMG OMG OMG
OMB boys and girls learning how to talk to each other about sex omg omg omg

Kids are smarter than parents.

Maybe you should ask your children what they prefer? I asked my daughters - one that has gone through sex ed in elementary school, and one who gets it next year and both said they would feel more comfortable in a group of girls with a female instructor. My older daughter said boys were already such jerks about sex ed that it would be horrible if they had to go through it together. I trust my kids. You and the school board should, too.

The people pushing coed sex ed don't have kids in fcps so tgeir focus is entirely a political agenda, not anything kid centric.

Both my kids have had coed sex ed in church. Neither had a problem with it. There were great conversations in class, and they learned a lot.
Alexandria has been doing coed sex ed for years with no problems.
Maybe your kids are giving you the answer you want or maybe it is the sex ed part that they don't like, not the coed part. I didn't think I'd like olives, but it turns out I do--hypitheticals are.not fact.

Coed Sex Ed in church is probably very different than coed sex ed in a random elementary school classroom. For one thing, these are children whose parents make them go to church. That is a form of self selection - these children are more likely to be well behaved and respectful than your average ES-aged boy.

Also,the families all have similar values.

In her unitarian church, all the families will be very far left liberals, with a high percentage of lbgtq families.