{"id":1501015,"date":"2022-06-02T10:14:41","date_gmt":"2022-06-02T14:14:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1501015"},"modified":"2022-06-02T10:14:51","modified_gmt":"2022-06-02T14:14:51","slug":"school-system-may-have-4000-materials-about-sex-work-but-parents-will-have-to-pay-20000-to-see-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/school-system-may-have-4000-materials-about-sex-work-but-parents-will-have-to-pay-20000-to-see-them\/","title":{"rendered":"School System May Have 4,000 Materials About \u2018Sex Work\u2019 \u2013 But Parents Will Have To Pay $20,000 To See Them"},"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\">40<\/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%2Fschool-system-may-have-4000-materials-about-sex-work-but-parents-will-have-to-pay-20000-to-see-them%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=1501015&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>The public school system in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/virginia\">Virginia<\/a>\u2018s capital says it may have more than 4,000 lesson plans, emails, and other materials about \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/cops-probe-after-middle-school-librarian-allegedly-says-students-are-sex-workers-to-justify-pro-prostitution-book\">sex work<\/a>,\u201d but if concerned parents want details, they will have to pay $20,000 to find out.<\/p>\n<p>The Richmond district\u2019s potential trove of disturbing materials was revealed when officials responded to a Daily Wire\u00a0Freedom of Information Act request for all records and materials invoking the terms \u201csex work\u201d or \u201csex worker,\u201d including in teaching materials and communications between employees. The issue has raised concerns among parents who say library books and teaching materials <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/cops-probe-after-middle-school-librarian-allegedly-says-students-are-sex-workers-to-justify-pro-prostitution-book\">increasingly normalize sex work<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGiven the broad scope of your revised request of the email search for the terms \u2018sex work\u2019 and \u2018sex worker,\u2019 our IT staff projects that upwards of 4,000 records may be retrieved in the search,\u201d the district responded, adding that the \u201cestimated charge that may be incurred by [Richmond Public Schools] to access, duplicate, supply, and\/or search for records responsive your request, in the amount of $19,555.40,\u201d half of which was required to begin searching.<\/p>\n<p>District officials said that the hefty price was in part because it included the cost of bureaucrats deciding what information to withhold, despite matching the query.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEach record, in turn, will have to be reviewed to ensure that exempted information is withheld, if applicable,\u201d officials wrote. \u201cDepending upon the amount of records retrieved, the time associated with reviewing the records may exceed the estimate as we aim to be conservative in our approximations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The school system did not return a request for comment from The Daily Wire for this story.<\/p>\n<p>Richmond schools shut down for coronavirus longer than almost anywhere else, and once they returned, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baconsrebellion.com\/wp\/richmond-schools-closing-due-to-teacher-burnout\/\">shut down<\/a> for a week again to give teachers a break.\u00a0In the 2020-21 school year, only 32% of students <a href=\"https:\/\/www.doe.virginia.gov\/statistics_reports\/sol-pass-rates\/index.shtml\">passed<\/a> their state math exam, 46% passed their science exam, and 47% passed their English exams.<\/p>\n<p>An advocate conducted a statistical analysis that suggested the schools were \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/calaf.org\/?p=7151\">cheating<\/a> wholesale to boost the graduation rates,\u201d with graduation rates far out of step with what would be expected given test scores.<\/p>\n<p>Schools\u2019 presentation of prostitution to children is of interest after a Loudoun County, Virginia, middle school library featured a book called \u201cSeeing Gender\u201d which promoted prostitution in positive terms.<\/p>\n<p>A chapter titled \u201c\u2018Sex Work\u2019 Is Not a Bad Term\u201d said \u201cA person may exchange sex or sexual activity for things they need or want, such as food, housing, hormones, drugs, gifts, or other resources,\u201d reads one shocking passage in the book.<\/p>\n<p>Related: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/cops-probe-after-middle-school-librarian-allegedly-says-students-are-sex-workers-to-justify-pro-prostitution-book\">Cops Probe After Middle School Librarian Allegedly Says Students Are \u2018Sex Workers\u2019 To Justify Pro-Prostitution Book<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Prostitution is \u201ca job like being a store clerk, an architect, or a freelance writer. We all, unfortunately, have to do work to make a living. Some of us hate our jobs and some of us love them\u2013the same goes for those who do sex work. Sadly, sex work is generally misunderstood,\u201d the book states.<\/p>\n<p>A teacher went to the police after she said a school librarian, Stefany Guido, \u201cstarted talking about how there\u2019s kids who come to the library who do sex work, and this makes them feel validated.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI said, \u2018what happens if a sixth grader checks it out?\u2019\u201d the teacher told police. \u201cShe said \u2018I have a conversation with them about it.\u2019\u201d The teacher was concerned because school staff are mandatory reporters who should call police if children are suspected to be sex trafficked.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Richmond, Virginia school system says it may have more than 4,000 lesson plans, emails, and other materials about \u201csex work.\u201d But if parents want to know what their children are being taught about prostitution, they will have to pay $20,000 to find out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":128,"featured_media":1501027,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1501015","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\/1501015","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\/128"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1501015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1501015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1501027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1501015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1501015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1501015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}