CA overhauls sex education guidance for teachers

Parents feel that their rights are being taken away are the ones who should keep their kids at home and teach them at home. There are thousands of instances where parents should be involved in their child's education, but can't be bothered. For a child in kindergarten, it's not a matter of sitting down and having a full-blown sex education class, but knowing how to respond if they have a little boy wanting to wear dresses or a girl who doesn't like "girl stuff" and how to handle the responses of the rest of the children, so as to avoid bullying. The number of child suicides by LGBT kids and youth is a clear indicator that parents don't do fuck-all about bullying.

California has overhauled its sex education guidance for public school teachers, encouraging them to talk about gender identity with kindergartners and give advice to LGBT teenagers for navigating relationships and having safe sex.

LGBT advocates praised the new recommendations for giving attention to a community that is often left out of sex education policies. But some parents and conservative groups assailed the more than 700-page document as an assault on parental rights, arguing it exposes children to ideas about sexuality and gender that should be taught at home.

The guidance approved Wednesday by the California State Board of Education does not require educators to teach anything. It is designed as a guide for teachers to meet state standards on health education, such as nutrition, physical activity and combating alcohol and drug abuse.

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