{"id":1425302,"date":"2022-04-08T09:30:01","date_gmt":"2022-04-08T13:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1425302"},"modified":"2022-04-08T09:30:04","modified_gmt":"2022-04-08T13:30:04","slug":"new-jersey-model-curriculum-gender-identity-lessons-for-1st-and-2nd-graders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-jersey-model-curriculum-gender-identity-lessons-for-1st-and-2nd-graders\/","title":{"rendered":"New Jersey Model Curriculum: &#039;Gender Identity&#039; Lessons for 1st and 2nd Graders"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnew-jersey-model-curriculum-gender-identity-lessons-for-1st-and-2nd-graders%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1425302&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">A model New Jersey state curriculum provided to parents in the Westfield school district and released by State Sen.\u00a0Holly Schepisi (R-39) suggests that students should begin learning about gender identity as early as the first or second grade.<\/p>\n<p>Transgender activists believe that gender identity is different from biological sex, and that individuals may switch genders. While there is growing tolerance for that idea among adults, including in Supreme Court <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2020\/06\/15\/pollak-gorsuch-decision-in-lgbt-discrimination-case-shows-religious-freedom-lgbt-rights-coexist\/\">decisions<\/a>, many Americans believe it should not be introduced to young children, for whom discussions of sex, gender, and sexuality are inappropriate.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>As Breitbart News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/04\/06\/republican-state-senator-exposes-radical-sex-ed-curriculum-i-truly-think-new-jersey-has-lost-its-damn-mind\/\">reported<\/a> earlier this week, Sen. Schepisi released the curriculum materials publicly, as <a href=\"https:\/\/savejersey.com\/2022\/04\/schepisi-previews-new-jerseys-cringy-outrageous-new-sex-curriculum\/\">reported<\/a> by SaveJersey.com:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cAlthough I voted against the legislation mandating certain sexual education classes for even the youngest of children I\u2019ve taken a measured approach and have waited to further comment until I saw what was proposed,\u201d Sen. Holly Schepisi said in a story posted on the Save Jersey website. \u201cToday I reviewed all of the model school instruction materials and I truly think New Jersey has lost its damn mind.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile some of the lessons I agree with, many are completely overboard with cringy detail for young kids and some go so far as unnecessarily sexualizing children further,\u201d Schepisi said. \u201cFor me the most outrageous part are teachers are instructed to promote a website Amaze and its YouTube channel to kids as young as 9 for them to get additional information on sex ed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI encourage all parents to take a look and decide if this is something they deem appropriate for kids this age,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Schepisi <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/sh\/dge2a30qi05brxw\/AAA1aLdHgQNhEN2b0SGuUmnMa?dl=0&#038;fbclid=IwAR00KOr7cMLevp6yfDgUvMM-kLHBvuQ5pzasTw9C8M4gjyzWCy-Ql8_KTTw\">posted<\/a> the materials on Dropbox for the public to peruse.<\/p>\n<p>While some materials might be considered broadly acceptable \u2014 such as telling kindergarteners that it is OK for some kids to have two mothers or two fathers \u2014 others cross into more sensitive topics.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>In one set of materials for first grade, students are to be taught to \u201cDefine gender, gender identity and gender role\u00a0stereotypes.\u201d In another, for second grade students, students are to be taught that \u201cthere are\u00a0some body parts that mostly just girls have and some parts that\u00a0mostly just boys have. Being a boy or a girl doesn\u2019t have to mean\u00a0you have those parts, but for most people this is how their bodies\u00a0are.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In addition, Schepisi pointed to materials for students in fifth grade, which includes a link to a website called Amaze. The Amaze YouTube channel includes a separate video (not linked in the materials) promoting pornography:<\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<p>Fox News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/new-jersey-second-graders-learn-gender-identity-alarming-parents\">reported<\/a>: \u201cA spokesperson for Westfield Public Schools told Fox News Digital that the teaching materials were not the school district\u2019s plans. The school superintendent told Fox News Digital that the materials presented to parents at the February Board of Education meeting were a \u2018sample list of resources\u2019 aligned with state policy.\u201d The district also said that the state\u2019s suggested standards were not mandatory.<\/p>\n<p>The Biden administration opposes efforts to restrict instruction on gender and sexuality for the youngest children, such as the new\u00a0Parental Rights in Education Act signed into law by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/03\/28\/ron-desantis-signs-parental-rights-bill-law\/\">bars<\/a> such materials from kindergarten through third grade.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, when Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy asked White House press secretary Jen Psaki whether the Biden administration believes that children from kindergarten through third grade should have \u201cclassroom instruction about sexual orientation and gender identity,\u201d she <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/press-briefings\/2022\/04\/04\/press-briefing-by-press-secretary-jen-psaki-and-national-security-advisor-jake-sullivan\/\">responded<\/a>: \u201cDo you have examples of schools in Florida that are teaching kindergarteners about sex education?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Psaki argued that the law was intended merely to stigmatize transgender \u201cyoung people,\u201d and were not addressing an actual issue.<\/p>\n<p><em>Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News and the host of <\/em>Breitbart News Sunday<em> on Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday evenings from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET (4 p.m. to 7 p.m. PT). He is the author of the recent e-book, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Neither-Free-nor-Fair-Presidential-ebook\/dp\/B08PNN54BB\">Neither Free nor Fair: The 2020 U.S. Presidential Election<\/a>. His recent book, <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.centerstreet.com\/titles\/joel-b-pollak\/red-november\/9781546099840\/\">RED NOVEMBER<\/a><em>, tells the story of the 2020 Democratic presidential primary from a conservative perspective. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. Follow him on Twitter at <a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/joelpollak\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">@joelpollak<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: file<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A model New Jersey state curriculum provided to parents in the Westfield school district and released by State Sen.\u00a0Holly Schepisi (R-39) suggests that students should begin learning about gender identity<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1425302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1425302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1425302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1425302\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1425302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1425302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1425302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}