ACTION LETTER
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Lets get an early start on this fight for next school year.
Thank you Melissa Morrison for this Sample letter!!!
Good Morning,
Many have agreed that the implementation of the 2020 NJSL Comprehensive Health and Physical Education Standards should be paused, reviewed, revisited and rewritten for a multitude of reasons.
They are not age appropriate.
They are not content appropriate.
Here is one specific standard that is not age appropriate nor content appropriate.
2.1.5.PGD.4: Explain common human sexual development and the role of hormones (e.g., romantic and sexual feelings, masturbation, mood swings, timing of pubertal onset).
Students are “mandated” to learn this standard anywhere from 3rd grade until 5th grade. Why is this even a standard? Does this standard make any of you feel extremely uncomfortable? If it doesn’t, then you need your head examined. The physical education/health teacher can teach our students about sexual feelings? Masturbation? 9 out of 13 of you agreed with teaching our children this particular standard? There is nothing appropriate about Standard 2.1.5.PGD.4.
If anyone spoke about the contents in the above standard in any other setting it would be deemed sexual harassment. Let’s say one of your fellow State Board of Education members began talking to you about maturation; how they do it, when they do it, why they do it. Would you be comfortable being exposed to that commentary? Would that be an appropriate discussion to have? That exact conversation would be deemed as sexual harassment. Again, why do the 9 of you feel it’s educationally appropriate for an adult to have that very same discussion with a child that’s in 3rd, 4th or 5th grade?
It’s repulsive.
It’s grotesque.
It’s wildly inappropriate.
The 9 of you subscribe to the exploitation of children.
Let any “trusted adult” discuss masturbation, sexual feelings, romantic feelings with my child and the end result will not be favorable.
Why is this acceptable in the realm of education? Why did 9 grown ass adults,
Kathy Goldenberg, President
Arcelio Aponte
Elaine Bobrove
Fatima Burnam-Watkins
Ronald Butcher
Nedd James Johnson
Ernest Lepore
Joseph Ricca, Jr.
Sylvia Sylvia-Cioffi,
approved and advocate for other grown ass adults to speak about things of sexual nature to children?
I’m guessing my household is a much different household than yours. I thank God that it is.
I listened to the Acting Commissioner of Education answer questions from our legislative body particularly Senator Michael Testa. She stated that the "resources" circulating are not linked to the NJDOE. That's false. It took me two seconds to click, click, click within the NJDOE website and to find the resources she stated weren't linked. She also stated they vetted the resources. If that’s the case, then they most certainly approve of Advocates for Youth, 3Rs Curriculum and Amaze. Those resources, lesson plans and videos are not educationally appropriate in a public school education setting. If you think they are, then you should resign from the State Board of Education.
From what I've witnessed around the State of New Jersey, it's not just "my" opinion. It's the opinion of those that want to protect their children from inappropriate topics. Some of those topics should be left for the kitchen table if a parent chooses to even discuss them. That’s called parental choice. No entity has the right to overstep their boundaries.
I've read, listened to "children have seen worse on Tik Tok, Netflix!" That's correct. They have. What my child watches, listens to on social media platforms is my responsibility, not the responsibility of any educational institution. That narrative of “your children have seen more” doesn't give educational organizations and institutions carte blanche to override parental rights and responsibility.
Let’s reread that statement again: That narrative of “your children have seen more” doesn't give educational organizations and institutions carte blanche to override parental rights and responsibility.
I am urging the State Board of Education to pause the implementation of the 2020 NJSL Standards and to omit sensitive subject matter. Subject matter that should be left to the kitchen table. If the subject matter is not appropriate in any setting, then it’s not appropriate for the classroom.
The reasoning that parents aren’t teaching their children certain subject matter doesn’t give the State Board of Education nor the NJDOE the right to implement such sensitive subject matter.
The sexual education standards have always been to stress abstinence. Which one of you wanted to remove the word abstinence from the Standards?
The 9 that supported this garbage should step down from this position. All of you are a detriment and a danger to public school children throughout New Jersey. The 4 State Board of Education members that released a statement last night, I can only assume that it was the 4 of you that voted these standards down in the first place.
Vice President Andrew Mulvihill
Mary Beth Berry
Mary Elizabeth Gazi
Jack Fornaro
I thank you for taking a stand against the standards that have a one sided, upside down political agenda that doesn’t protect our children but rather exploits them.
Thank you for your time,
Parent and Taxpayer
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