New Jersey has had sex education for years in appropriate grades, where did the New jersey Deparment of Education come up with these new sex standards? Back in 2019 NJ received a C from Thrive NJ coalition, a group that promotes sexual, and reproductive health rights and justice through policy change. This group includes organizations like planned parenthood, New Jersey abortion access fund, League of Woman voters, American Society for Emergency Contraception, NJEA, and others. Notice no developmental psychologist groups were involved in the examination of the sex report card. Take note of the recommendations from these organizations to stop stressing abstinence, don’t talk about the failures of contraception, more classroom hours on sex ed, increase financial resources and increase funding, and follow specific standards on LGBTQ.
Found here: https://www.sexednj.org/uploads/1/2/4/4/124458869/new_jerseys_sex_ed_report_card_-_fact_sheet.pdf
Some of the minor players in the push for changes in NJ SEX Ed to the 2020 standards are:
Advocates for Youth: Young people understand that reproductive and sexual health and rights are inextricably tied to social justice and the fight for liberation. Join thousands of youth activists and adult allies as we build a better and more equitable world.
Rutgers University: Answer for sex educators
I invite you to scroll around these pages and see what these groups have in mind for your child.
Advocates for Youth seems to be a major player in racial justice and intersectionality. They use terms like “womxn” to promote their LGBT equality movement to allow men into woman-only spaces. And they tend to focus on queer Muslims, which I find oddly specific. They promote activities like “Abortion out loud”, a grassroots movement for women to tell their positive abortion stories. Many of their activities and issues are at odds with average Americans, with the exception of the campaign to “end sexual violence.” That, we can all get on board with, but of course, the way I would stop sexual violence is by first stopping men from going into woman-only spaces like bathrooms and locker rooms, where we are vulnerable. I personally think they should exclude themselves from anything dealing with childhood education. They are not qualified and clearly have an agenda that does not align with parents.
SEICUS, another group with a heavy focus on "Social Justice”, started by a medical director at Planned Parenthood, claims that abstinence only and sexual risk avoidance education “especially harm” BIPAC (Black, Indigenous, and people of color) and LGBTQ+ youth. Notice that in March, SIECUS supports transgender athletes during Woman’s History Month. Again another organization without educators and without developmental psychologists involved in our children’s education. SEICUS came up with the Guidelines for Comprehensive Sexuality Education which was used by NJ to develop the sex ed standards.
Rutger’s Answer, is actually a program created for educators and appears to not have a heavy social justice warrior agenda. However, they still promote socal justice Advocates for Youth and planned parenthood as resources for kids. The most disturbing thing is that Rutgers promotes amaze.org, the site that tells your kids how great masturbation is and how its normal to watch porn… but put away the real porn and watch the cartoon porn provided by Amaze. And kids, if you aren’t into sex at 10, you are probably just asexual. Rutgers claims to have a psychological influence… but remember penis obsessed Freud was also a psychologist. What types of practicing psychologist supports the explicit videos shown on amaze?
Don’t just take my word for it, please thoroughly go through these 3 organization’s websites in detail and tell me if you really want them making educational and developmental decisions for your kids.
Please also look up the 2009 UNESCO/WHO "International Guidelines on Sexuality Education". Yes, that's 2009. It is like a crystal ball - all the disturbing elements of the NJ Standards are included therein, as is the recommended method for how to handle parental pushback, including use of MEDIA and NGOs. The UN has been playing the long game for 15 years, they knew and planned for the outcry, and the updated standards are mentioned on the WHO website as part of Education2030 (part of Agenda2030).
The narrative every school responds with, such as "we need to teach this so sexual abuse victims will have the language to describe...", is all preplanned and pre-scripted.
Recognize that it's not even left/right, pro/con, it's an ideological agenda from outside of our nation that has infiltrated, and literally brainwashed those supporting it.
Parents - know who you are voting for in elections, and actually vote. Know what is on the legislative roster, and call/email state legislators before a vote. Fill up their voice mail and email. Attend BOE meetings, contact your representatives, be tireless - they expect you to give up in 6 months. Let elected officials at every level know this is an important issue for their next election cycle. These sick standards are long in the making and will require us to take action, not just complain, and similarly play the long game in changing BOEs, legislators, laws, union influence. We cannot leave our schools and our government on autopilot. Utilize what options we DO have. Show up and speak up. File OPRA requests. Email, call, even visit with your elected representatives, and Super/Curriculum Director. Get to know your BOE members, understand their positions. Run for BOE, ask to be appointed to county committee open positions, support good candidates. Vote. Homeschool. Private school. Opt Out - it's not perfect!!, but some state appointees did not even want to grant parents that right!, so USE it and send a message. Imagine if 10% - 100,000 NJ schoolkids opted out - the message to any elected officials will be loud and clear that you co-parent with no one.
And PHIL WON'T GET INVITED TO DAVOS if all those kids Opt Out, or leave the public school system altogether. That alone is worth it! Make this program a failure, even if it's sprinkled elsewhere - I get it - still, MAKE IT AN EPIC FAIL to the best of our ability with the one tool they gave us!
If the above article shows anything, it's that there's an ideological agenda in progress, it's well funded and well coordinated. We have a lot of work to do to make changes, and we have to keep at it.
You Are The Cavalry.