Submitted by KM Hills.
In 2020 Washington State passed a “Comprehensive Sexual Education Bill” which remains controversial.
On March 21, 2024 KOMO News shared a story about how the State now takes it one step further and will soon mandate that LGBTQ+ history be taught in all public schools.
Our local school districts will now be forced to teach something else, that according to the survey on the KOMO News website, 92% of respondents don’t want in the curriculum.
While many students struggle to even learn the basics, Reading, Writing & Arithmetic, there is now one more State mandate that will allow even less time for the “3 R’s”
Now more than ever, is the time for parents to not only consider private schools, where the main focus remains on the “3 R’s”, but make the move. Here in Pierce County there are a number of private schools and honestly some of them are not much more expensive than day-care. So many families pay for day-care, before their students became school aged, and how cautious were they picking which one was best? Parents should be even more particular about what is best for their K-12 students.
If enough families vote with their feet, and leave public school, it will have a vast positive impact on your students learning, but also send a message by taking those dollars out of your local school system.
The bill requires school districts develop policies for screening materials to make sure they include contributions of historically under represented and marginalized groups. It doesn’t ask for additional teaching, per se. We have been through this before with African-Americans, native Americans, women, etc. There is nothing about sexual education in this bill. It is merely being more complete in the education. I think all of us know that a lot of what we learned about history in school was half the story, at best. The winners write the history books, so that is what we have always been taught. I believe history should be taught based on facts, regardless of who gets credit or blame for what happened. You cannot change the past, but you can learn what really happened, even if it is uncomfortable.
What Ray says is quite correct,read the bill is ‘lady’ is pushing her own agenda,does she have any connection with “charter schools” ? Our public school system is losing too much money to these QUESTIONABLE INSTITUTIONS.
“Diversity” gone amok. This fascination with and pandering to “LGBTetc.” isn’t confined to public schools. Our premier private school, Charles Wright Academy, had a “gay pride” flying for a month last year. You have to wonder how they explained that to grade school students. Women, Blacks and other group physical characteristics are self evident and need no explanation: sexual orientation does…especially with all its variables.
“Our public schools are losing too much money…” This has always been the bottom line for many public schools: money! Not student education or preparedness for adulthood. Rather what’s in it for the education union members’ self interest. Threaten that gravy train and they’re out in force to decry private learning institutions competing with them. Did you know that Washington teachers have some of the highest salaries in the Nation: $81586. That’s just behind New York, Massachusetts, California and Washington D.C.
https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/teacher-pay-by-state
The other option is to vote with your feet and move to a high performing school district. They are around here locally. Compare the percentile rating for Clover Park is 28.5%, UP is 95.2%, Gig Harbor (Peninsula) 85.5% and Steilacoom 84.3%.
If your children’s education is important to you then you have to consider all options.
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Another reason to consider changing one’s domicile. The state we’ve called home for the last 40 years has gone over the edge.
Mr. Arbeeny and Mr. Fannin are both correct. Public education both, primary and secondary public education have been dumbed down to a level where America, once near the top in the world has fallen out of not only the top ten but, to a level of complete embarrassment. Anyone employed in the administration or operation of primary or secondary public education is guilty of perpetrating a fraud upon the students and their parents who pay taxes and tuition.
The continuing decline in the quality of education is a threat to the survival of America as the coming generations of those who run our country continues to decline.
I believe a more impactful poll would be, “Are you satisfied with the education your child receives in Public Schools in WA State?” WEA (The State Teacher’s Union) has a motto of “Strengthening Washington’s Public Schools”. Apparently from a teacher’s salary perspective, WA State Public Schools are pretty strong! What about outcomes for the children being educated? Is the response to declining standardized test scores, “We should be doing better as educators?” Is the response, “Standardized test scores are racist and unfair to marginalized groups and therefore should be lowered / eliminated?”
Those looking in with a critical eye see a complex problem. Certainly one cannot ignore the dissimilar performance of public school districts near economically advantaged populations as opposed to the urban or rural core.
One thing is certain, a child in a public school seat is a paycheck to a school district. The system is supposed to operate with that premise being the catalyst for improvement and positive change. Unfortunately, accountability has been transformed into the classic “oppressed vs oppressor” mantra with victimhood being the ultimate excuse.
If your child is receiving a great public education, and you actually are an integral part of that, bravo! If your child is not receiving the education you wish, you should immediately seek an alternative. If alternatives are not readily available, seek to be the alternative and welcome others to the cause.
The harsh reality is Inslee and the majority of democrats are heathens and perverts!
When you specifically lift and push one race, sex or other group to the forefront, you are making that group superior to any other. It is not important in the least, what the history of homosexuals and homosexuality is in any society. The only thing the behavior of these people bring is irrelevant. May as well study the mating rituals of rabbits. This teaching is propagandizing an entire generation, not imparting knowledge.