Sex Ed Curriculum gets a "do-over"...

About a month ago, a U.S. District Judge put the brakes on a controversial Sex Education curriculum in Montgomery County, MD that pushed theory over fact, advocated non-heterosexual behavior and banned parents from observing the class.

Today's Washington Times has a good Op-Ed on the situation:

At the very least, Montgomery County showed what not to do: Don't stack advisory committees with advocates of "transgenderism" and homosexuality; don't quash opposing viewpoints you happen not to like; and don't make unwarranted distinctions between religious groups. Even in a liberal county, even in a region with liberal federal judges, public opposition will mount and a jurist will spot the constitutional problems.

The point of a sex-education curriculum is to teach facts about sex, not to propagate dubious theories. If such theories are put forward, then, at minimum, alternative approaches must also be presented. In Montgomery County, they were not. That was one of the principal reasons why Judge Alexander Williams Jr., the Clinton appointee who blocked the curriculum last month, ruled against the school board, citing First Amendment protections for free speech and expression.

The problem with the school board is that they were less interested in educating students and than they were about pushing an agenda - one that many parents objected to.

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