Know the school education laws in your state. Know what is mandatory and what is not. If you do not know the laws, write to your state department of education and ask for a copy of all laws dealing with sex education, AIDS education, family life education and human growth and development courses.
Whenever possible, you should work with the school administration to get rid of offensive programs before going to the school board. Although you must fight against what is in your district, do not hesitate to cite examples and problems with programs in other districts.
To read more information on how to fight sex education, STOPP International, a department of American Life League, has produced a 3-part plan on how to defeat Planned Parenthood. The second part of this plan discusses Defeating Planned Parenthood’s Public School Sex Education Programs. To view this in-depth and winning approach, please visit, http://www.stopp.org/plan.php?subcategory=E. Keep in mind, this approach will work for any other types of sex education programs that Planned Parenthood did not produce; however, Planned Parenthood has been around since 1916. In fact, in 1946, Planned Parenthood adopted a resolution advocating sex education for the United States.
Sex-education-free schools
After winning the battle of getting the sex education program out of your school, American Life League encourages your school to become what is called a “sex-education-free school.” A sex-education-free school is a school that has policies that:
- require all staff and outside presenters to not teach about, inform about, promote or encourage any type of sex education in the school’s curriculum, extracurricular programs or by any other means within the school and/or district.
- require its staff, students, volunteers or any outside source used by the school to not sponsor or support any type of event or program that involves sex education.
- can allow lessons on human development to be taught to upper-elementary grades. If allowed, these lessons must be closely monitored to ensure there is no instruction on sex education. These lessons must not be mandatory and require separation by sex during such instruction: A female teacher must teach the lessons to girls, and a male teacher must teach the lessons to boys. In order for students to take part in such lessons, the students’ parents must sign a permission slip.
- permit biology courses for high school students that include instruction on the body’s reproductive system, but do not include any sex education instruction.
Because those that run a sex-education-free school believe that parents are the primary teachers of their children, programs at a sex-education-free school can provide information and resources for parents to help instruct their children in human sexuality. Faculty and staff at a sex-education-free school will collaborate with parents to help them in this task. Thus, the assistance will be given to the parents, rather than directly from the school to the child.
