NJEA & Murphy Gaslight Parents

Here’s what you are hearing in the news

The parents I know have been screaming about the state standards since before they were voted on in 2020. Lowering the sex education ages and teaching wokeology is not a popular idea among parents. Since Senator Holly Schepisi alerted parents to prepared lesson plans, parents are outraged the left has been scrambling control the damage.

The NJEA created a disinformation alert that states that “Political consultants and partisan pundits have seized upon this curriculum to make wild accusations about children being taught sexually explicit and age-inappropriate lessons.”

Sen. Holly Schepisi @HollySchepisi

The NJEA is being disingenuous at best when they say that sample lesson plans that some parents are being provided by districts are not required by the new state sex ed standards. 1/3

senatenj.comSchepisi: NJEA’s “Disinformation Alert” on Sex Ed Curriculum Is Disingenuous Attempt to Dismiss Parents’ ConcernsSen. Holly Schepisi said a ‘Disinformation Alert’ issued by the NJEA is a disingenuous attempt to dismiss the concerns of parents about new sex education standards that school districts must implement this fall.

Governor Murphy has been back pedaling and said that he will take a second look at the standards.

Governor Phil Murphy @GovMurphy

Any proposed educational content that is not age-appropriate should be immediately revised by local officials. To this end, I have directed @NewJerseyDOE to review the standards and provide further clarification on what age-appropriate guidelines look like for our students.

Then Murphy uses his typical doublespeak to back pedal his concern and gaslight parents, “Unfortunately, our learning standards have been intentionally misrepresented by some politicians seeking to divide and score political points," and goes on to post this on twitter:

Governor Phil Murphy @GovMurphy

At the same time, we have seen a handful of sample lesson plans being circulated that have not been adopted in our school districts and do not accurately reflect the spirit of the standards.

None of that is true. Those lessons have already been actually used in NJ schools according to Senator Schepisi and parents.

State Senator Vin Gopal, who serves as chairman of the State’s Education Committee, said the conversation surrounding public education was full of misinformation. He added that no one want to teach sex to kindergartners and first graders. He’s mincing words, they STILL want to start teaching these new standards in second grade. Click Here for the full Article. Masturbation is still a topic for 5th grade and anal and oral sex is still a topic for 8th grade. Its still bad. To read the standards for yourself, click the button below.

Planned Parenthood of NJ and the ACLU of NJ are pressuring Murphy to keep the standards the way they are. The ACLU put out a communication to remind him “inclusive sex education is education.”

We, as concerned parents, need to put pressure on Murphy and local state senators and assemblymen. There is a lot of pressure from special interests to harm our kids and we need to INSIST that PARENTS be in the drivers seat.

We need to DEMAND that Murphy delay the implementation of any new human sexuality standards until the 2023/2024 school year.

We need to insist that the legislature form a Education Advisory Committee and include parents, local mental health professionals, and other community members with diverse views, ethnicities, faiths, etc. This fosters collaboration and community buy in, versus allowing third parties with their own agenda to be in the driver seat.

We have outlined the inappropriate standards in 3 separate articles: By the end of 2nd, 5th, and 8th:

New Standards - 2nd Grade

New Standards - 5th Grade

New Standards - 8th Grade SEX

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