{"id":1493656,"date":"2022-05-26T16:45:38","date_gmt":"2022-05-26T20:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1493656"},"modified":"2022-05-26T16:45:46","modified_gmt":"2022-05-26T20:45:46","slug":"beverly-hills-parents-erupt-over-gender-identity-in-fifth-grade-sex-ed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/beverly-hills-parents-erupt-over-gender-identity-in-fifth-grade-sex-ed\/","title":{"rendered":"Beverly Hills Parents Erupt Over Gender Identity In Fifth Grade Sex-Ed"},"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\">22<\/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%2Fbeverly-hills-parents-erupt-over-gender-identity-in-fifth-grade-sex-ed%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=1493656&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--><p>Parents in Beverly Hills showed up to their local school board meeting this month to express their shock and disappointment with what they said was the fifth-grade sex education curriculum.<\/p>\n<p>Four parents spoke out about the district\u2019s sex-ed classes for 10-year-olds during the May 10 school board <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=N0PpTGyaQBs\">meeting<\/a> for Beverly Hills Unified School District.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel betrayed, angry, and disgusted,\u201d one dad of a fifth-grader told the board. \u201cOur kids have the right to innocence and not to be exposed to topics that can only confuse them even more than they are as they enter puberty.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The dad said several topics, including gender identity, were not \u201copenly disclosed\u201d in the email sent to parents about the classes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe students for this are ten years old,\u201d the dad continued. \u201cHow can the district think this content is even remotely appropriate for this age group and not even make a specific disclosure to parents? It\u2019s unbelievable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The dad said he personally requested the course materials, but he pointed out that many parents may not investigate further as they are \u201cbusy with life,\u201d and \u201ctrust the school to do the right thing.\u201d He also asked them to apologize.<\/p>\n<p>In 2016, the California Healthy Youth Act added to the existing\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cde.ca.gov\/be\/st\/ss\/documents\/healthstandmar08.pdf\">state sex-ed standards<\/a>, and California began requiring any K-12 sex ed to include instruction on gender identity and sexual orientation. Because sex ed is taught in fifth grade, 10-year-olds are exposed to those topics unless their parents opt them out.<\/p>\n<p>Sex ed in grades K-6 must \u201cteach about gender,\u00a0gender expression, gender identity, and the harm of negative gender stereotypes,\u201d as well as \u201caffirmatively recognize different sexual orientations and be inclusive of same-sex relationships in discussions and examples,\u201d\u00a0according to an American Civil Liberties Union <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aclunc.org\/docs\/201703-facts_about_ca_healthy_youth_act_k-6.pdf\">handout<\/a> about the 2016 law.<\/p>\n<p>Another dad of two daughters attending school in the district said the fifth-grade sex ed classes included \u201ca lot of disturbing things\u201d including the idea that \u201cgender is something that many people think they understand but they don\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The dad said he is also concerned about the \u201clack of transparency\u201d from the school district and urged the school board to share the curriculum \u201cup front\u201d so that parents can make an \u201cinformed decision\u201d about whether or not they want to opt-out their children. He also said he is concerned about teachers\u00a0pushing \u201cpersonal agendas,\u201d political or otherwise.<\/p>\n<p>A mom, who said she is an OB-GYN and has teenage children, also spoke at the school board meeting and criticized a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=r6oka_hqMJk\">video<\/a>, titled \u201cTop Signs Girls are in Puberty,\u201d which she said was included in the fifth-grade sex-ed curriculum and \u201cwas not made in a way that supports young girls going through changes in their bodies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After the parents complained at the school board meeting, Beverly Hills School Superintendent Michael Bregy extended the parental consent deadline for the fifth-grade sex ed classes, according to an email from Bregy to parents that was provided by the district to The Daily Wire.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMuch like every other subject, the way in which our teachers teach the standards differs from year to year and teacher to teacher,\u201d Bregy wrote in the May 16 email to fifth-grade parents.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is critically important that each of our teachers assess the students in their classroom and meet them where they are at, both academically and socially,\u201d Bregy said, emphasizing that the resources teachers use are \u201cdevelopmentally appropriate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Beverly Hills district includes three elementary schools that together serve more than 2,000 students.<\/p>\n<p>The city, a celebrity haven, is nestled within deep-blue Los Angeles County and voted for President Joe Biden in 2020, but pockets of Beverly Hills have voted Republican in the last two presidential elections.<\/p>\n<p>The reaction from Beverly Hills parents is just the latest instance of parents across the country <a href=\"https:\/\/texasscorecard.com\/local\/more-texas-parents-find-pornographic-books-in-their-childrens-school-libraries\/\">stepping in<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/nation\/2022\/03\/08\/florida-bill-lgbtq-schools\/\">to protect<\/a> their young children from what they view as inappropriate sexual content at school, including a progressive view of gender as different from biological sex.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parents in Beverly Hills showed up to their local school board meeting this month to express their shock and disappointment with what they said was the fifth-grade sex education curriculum. 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