Welcome back to school, teachers, staff, students and families. We are grateful for the hard working folks who are educating our children. Unfortunately, we are saddened to learn this first week of school that Fort Worth ISD Superintendent Kent Scribner and his administration, including Georgi Roberts, have issued a new sixth grade human sexuality curriculum notice that still fails to inform parents that students are being taught the notion that they can change their sex. The District’s 6,000 sixth graders are being taught one thing in health class and another thing in science class.
A document comparison showing the new notice compared to last year’s notice reveals several alarming changes. First, the District deleted information regarding opportunities for parental involvement in the development of the human sexuality curriculum, including information regarding opportunities to serve on the local school health advisory council. Second, the District deleted language informing parents of their right to remove a student from any part of the district’s human sexuality instruction without subjecting the student to any disciplinary action, academic penalty, or other sanction imposed by the district or the student’s school. These changes raise serious questions about the District’s violation of parental rights and whether students who do not wish to participate will be disciplined or penalized academically.
Section 28.004(i) of the Texas Education Code provides:
(i) Before each school year, a school district shall provide written notice to a parent of each student enrolled in the district of the board of trustees’ decision regarding whether the district will provide human sexuality instruction to district students. If instruction will be provided, the notice must include:
(1) a summary of the basic content of the district’s human sexuality instruction to be provided to the student, including a statement informing the parent of the instructional requirements under state law;
(2) a statement of the parent’s right to:
(A) review curriculum materials as provided by Subsection (j); and
(B) remove the student from any part of the district’s human sexuality instruction without subjecting the student to any disciplinary action, academic penalty, or other sanction imposed by the district or the student’s school; and
(3) information describing the opportunities for parental involvement in the development of the curriculum to be used in human sexuality instruction, including information regarding the local school health advisory council established under Subsection (a).
Not only does the District’s new notice fail to adequately inform parents of the content of human sexuality instruction, it also fails to comply with state law. This legal deficiency cannot be remedied for the current school year because the law requires that the notice be provided before each school year. Now that the school year has commenced, the failure of adequate notice should prohibit Fort Worth ISD from providing human sexuality instruction to sixth graders during this school year.
Additionally, the District inserted an option for parents to “opt in” to instruction as well as “opt out.” In light of the Notice’s lack of transparency regarding the curriculum content, this is disingenuous and creates a veneer of parental acceptance when, in fact, parents are still not being adequately informed of the content. It doesn’t matter whether parents are given the option to “opt in to” or “opt out of” instruction if they don’t know what is in the curriculum. At the very least, the notice should have stated the curriculum includes material regarding sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, and transgenderism.
Students are back to school, and parent and taxpayers are back to holding Fort Worth ISD accountable.
This Is an outrage! What in the world is wrong with this superintendent and his administration! I honestly hope you lose your job for this; You absolutely knew exactly what you were doing and the fact that you did it deliberately is horrible and I do hope you are fired! This Is Child Abuse!
I agree with Ms.Wheeler.
It is obvious that Scribner and the FWISD board members share an agenda. Their plain is to program young minds into believing perversion is normal and to disagree with this lie is abnormal. They are trying to abduct the minds of our young and impressionable children with unnatural doctrine, utilizing isolation and peer pressure in an authoritative environment. We must stand up to this fascist movement to quietly and covertly indoctrinate our children’s. Stand up!!!!
This is why my kids go to a private, Christian school. I do not trust state run schools which have become indoctrination mills into the “religion” of Leftism. As a taxpayer and concerned citizen, I too am horrified by the deceit and deliberate attempt to hide this curriculum from parents.