IF WE’RE BEING HONEST, THIS HAS BEEN GOING ON FOR DECADES: “A message from parents to schools — stop sexualizing our kids.”
In recent months, parents have grown more and more upset by curricular content within public schools, demanding changes for the sake of their children. While their concerns include issues like critical race theory, they have also expressed outrage at sexually explicit materials in schools, easily accessible by young children.
For example, in the same Fairfax County earlier this year, local mother Stacy Langton drew attention at a school board meeting to books in her son’s public school library that describe, in obscene detail, “pedophilia… fellatio, sex toys, masturbation, and violent nudity.” Ironically, when she began reading some quotes from the books verbatim, school board officials cut off her microphone for the sake of the “children in the audience.” Apparently, public school officials only then rediscovered the need for propriety around students.
Unfortunately, the scandal of sexualized education extends nationwide, far beyond the suburbs of Northern Virginia. In September, a Texas mother found a book in her child’s middle school library depicting anal sex. In North Carolina, sixth graders studied an image featuring a sexually explicit act for an art class assignment. A Vermont elementary school disseminated a survey asking fifth graders about their sexual history and “gender identity.” Indiana parents expressed outrage at library books for very young children such as Sparkle Boy, which features a cross-dressing toddler, and “Call Me Max,” in which a kindergarten girl asks a teacher to refer to her by a male name.