Parents are able to opt out of having their kids take part in the lessons, but Paula McCarthy-Mammana of Jackson - who said the curriculum “makes me sick” - said that move would be stigmatizing. Los Angeles County bans official travel to Florida over ‘Don’t Say Gay’ law Their innocence is beautiful and I do not want their little minds filled with this very adult topic.” Is this curriculum really necessary? Children need to stay children. “I am debating whether to place my child in a private school if I can afford it. “I am honestly appalled at this curriculum,” Maria DeMaio-Esposito, a mother of two from Howell, told the Asbury Park Press. They’re part of a broader, K-12 health and sex education curriculum adopted by the New Jersey Board of Education in 2020 that goes into effect in September. Ron DeSantis that bans the discussion of gender identity in kindergarten through third grade, which critics deride as “Don’t Say Gay.” The materials emerged amid controversy over a law signed last month by Florida Gov. AP Photo/Seth Wenig, FileĪ note to teachers also says: “Being a boy or a girl doesn’t have to mean you have those parts, but for most people this is how their bodies are.” Reported planned sex education lessons for first-graders in New Jersey will include discussions about gender identity. “Tell students: ‘There are some body parts that mostly just girls have and some parts that mostly just boys have,'” it says. No matter how you feel, you’re perfectly normal!”Ī lesson plan for second-graders, titled “Understanding Our Bodies,” includes an illustrated discussion of human genitals so kids as young as 7 can use “medically accurate names” for their private parts. And you might not feel like you’re a boy or a girl, but you’re a little bit of both. “You might feel like you’re a girl even if you have body parts that some people might tell you are ‘boy’ parts.
“You might feel like you’re a boy even if you have body parts that some people might tell you are ‘girl’ parts,” the lesson plan says. 22 meeting of the Westfield Board of Education and posted online. It also includes instructions for teachers to tell students that their gender identity is up to them, according to materials reportedly distributed to parents at a Feb. Chris Christie.Ī 30-minute lesson called “Pink, Blue and Purple” aims to teach the 6-year-olds to define “gender, gender identity and gender role stereotypes,” Fox News reported Friday.
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