Senate Republicans respond to parents’ concerns on curriculum
The Senate Republican leadership team called on Governor Phil Murphy and Senate President Nicholas Scutari to halt the implementation of New Jersey’s controversial new sex education standards and to hold public hearings on curriculum changes to empower parents who feel ignored. The senators made the requests in separate letters to Murphy and Scutari as the public uproar continues to grow as more parents learn the extreme nature of the lessons that would be taught to children as young as first and second grade.
Doherty: Sex Ed Curriculum Controversy Highlights Left-Wing Effort to Undermine Parental Rights
“It’s been clear for many years that left-wing groups view our children’s classrooms as a battleground they need to conquer to control the thinking of the next generation,” said Doherty (R-23). “They’re getting bolder in their efforts to hijack and rewrite curriculum standards for children at younger and younger ages in an attempt to normalize their extreme views on gender identity and sexual orientation. Parents from across the political spectrum are finally catching on and they’re standing up to say these efforts to indoctrinate their children are not okay.” Doherty said this problem has been getting worse for years, which is why he sponsors S-2233, which declares and protects the rights of parents to direct the upbringing, education, and care of their child.
Corrado’s ‘Parents Bill of Rights Act’ Affirms Parental Role in Education
As Trenton’s assault on parental rights rages on only months before a new, controversial school curriculum standard takes effect, Senator Kristin Corrado is fighting back with the “Parents Bill of Rights Act” she first introduced on Dec. 6, 2021. “With this measure, the educational rights of parents are guaranteed, and family values are protected from government intrusion.”
Senator Ed Durr announced plans to introduce legislation to prohibit classroom instruction by school personnel on sexual orientation or gender identity in kindergarten through sixth grade. After sixth grade, schools would be required to inform parents and obtain written consent for any classroom discussion relating to gender identity and sexual orientation. The bill also allows parents to sue for alleged violations, damages, or attorney’s fees. Teachers could be penalized as well for any violations.
Pennacchio: Sexual Identity Education for 4- and 5-Year-Olds is Not Optional
Trenton Democrats have defended the controversial new education curriculum standards, claiming parents who object have the opportunity to opt their children out of instructions that conflict with their moral or religious beliefs, but Senator Joe Pennacchio today rejected the rationale. “The so-called opt-out of the new rules is meaningless, because as the standards state, the specifics of the curriculum can apply to all content areas,” said Pennacchio (R-26). “A parent may be able to opt their child out of health and phys-ed, but the material will be integrated in science, social studies, and English lessons, anyway. My message to parents is this: Don’t let them tell you that you can opt out of everything, because you can’t.”
10th District Lawmakers: ‘We Told You So’
Senator Jim Holzapfel and Assemblymen Greg McGuckin and John Catalano today berated Governor Murphy’s Democrat-led Legislature in Trenton for the “woke” curriculum that elementary school students will find when they crack open their schoolbooks next fall. As the result of legislation passed and signed into law in 2019 and 2021, combined with updated health and physical education standards promulgated by the State Board of Education in 2020, students as young as Kindergarten will role play about gender types and pressure to conform, and by 8th Grade they will learn about vaginal, oral and anal sex.
Bramnick Says First Graders Don’t Need Lessons on Gender Identity
Senator Jon Bramnick (R-21) responded to concerns raised by Westfield parents after new lesson plans were recently revealed: “First- and second-grade students should not have a course on gender identity. It is a complicated subject that would be confusing to very young children.”
NJ’s ‘uber progressive’ gender curriculum goes ‘way too far’: GOP state senator
Apr. 11, 2022 – 3:32 – New Jersey State Senator Holly Schepisi discusses the new plan to teach gender identity to students as young as first grade.
