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| Hundreds of Texans Push for More Diversity in Sxx Education |
| 2020-09-09 |
| [Dallas News] AUSTIN — Nearly 400 Texans signed up to virtually testify before the State Board of Education, with most urging the board to include sxxual orientation, gender identity and non-heteronormative standards in comprehensive sex education in a lengthy hearing Tuesday. How many were testifying from outside "Keep Austin Weird"? Others pressed the board to include teaching climate change in core science courses in the state during the meeting. How about Climatology, without a fixed conclusion? This all comes after a proposed revision to Texas' health education standards, which could potentially add the teaching of birth control options, along with the abstinence-only option, to middle schoolers. Most notably, however, the proposed revision did not address gender identity and sxxuality. Such education was a paid-for, after-school option when I was a Sophomore, because my parents chose not to teach me. Gender idenity was not included. "We actively teach that only heteronormative love exists, only heteronormative families exist, only heteronormative sxx exists," said Cynthia Soliz, current chair of Austin ISD Student Health Advisory Committee. Maybe you could teach non-heteronormative stuff after class, for a fee, or you could donate you time to teach it? More than 80% of school districts in the state either teach abstinence-only or provide no sxxual education at all, though more than 60% of high school seniors say they have been sxxually active, according to the Texas Freedom Network, a non-partisan network of over 150,000 members who support religious freedom, individual liberties and public education. |
| Posted by:Bobby |
| #12 Three (visible) rings The donkeys fling feces and jerk us Around as the elephants twerk us Attendees performing Non-heteronormative Tricks, since the freaks run the circus. |
| Posted by: Thinesh Platypus8929 2020-09-09 18:13 |
| #11 The blue state idiots the came to Texas after destroying their states never learn. |
| Posted by: Vespasian Ebbereng3110 2020-09-09 17:51 |
| #10 "Hundreds". Las I checked, there were tens of millions living in Texas. Since when do mere 200 people gt to dictate to the majority? |
| Posted by: Theager Borgia1057 2020-09-09 16:29 |
| #9 I was curious, until I came to the word AUSTIN. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2020-09-09 16:20 |
| #8 "Insert Tab A into Slot B. Any questions?" |
| Posted by: Matt 2020-09-09 15:32 |
| #7 and non-heteronormative standards Does anyone know where the Rantburg Bullshit to English translator is? |
| Posted by: Raj 2020-09-09 14:07 |
| #6 With a State population of millions then "nearly 400" will espouse any damnfool thing... |
| Posted by: magpie 2020-09-09 13:57 |
| #5 If the schools do as well teaching sxx as they do teaching reading and arithmetic, the species will be extinct in a couple decades. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2020-09-09 13:21 |
| #4 With so many genders it would take forever to include all possible sexual preferences. |
| Posted by: jpal 2020-09-09 12:42 |
| #3 And millions and muillions thibk those people are crazy. Unfortunatley they dodn't demonstrete |
| Posted by: JFM 2020-09-09 12:12 |
| #2 How about no? How about as much time allocated to the non-mainstream as they're represented in the population? So maybe 1% of the course time spent on non-hetero sex? |
| Posted by: Rob Crawford 2020-09-09 12:03 |
| #1 Call it pregnancy education and exclude teaching about infertile ways |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2020-09-09 11:49 |