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A North Carolina school committee recently voted to stop providing a Planned Parenthood sex education program to middle school students.
Cumberland County Schools parents have been expressing outrage for months after learning that the abortion chain Planned Parenthood was scheduled to teach sex education their middle school children.
Last week, a committee assigned to the issue voted to stop using the Planned Parenthood program in the Cumberland public schools and return to a curriculum approved in 2009, according to the News Observer. The school board also has to approve the measure; a vote is scheduled for Tuesday.
Planned Parenthood’s sex education program “Get Real” was to be taught to six-, seventh- and eighth-grade students over a 10-day period, WRAL News previously reported. However, the school district put the program on hold last fall after parents raised concerns.
In a letter sent to parents in 2016 to introduce them to the program, former Cumberland County Schools Superintendent Frank Till told parents they could review the lessons two weeks before instruction and that students could opt out and take an alternative assignment.
Rob Wingo, another parent, told The Fayetteville Observer that the program was morally, ethically and spiritually wrong.
The nonprofit Sexual Health Initiatives for Teens (SHIFT NC) recommended “Get Real” to the school system, ABC11 reported in October.
And in August, a Pennsylvania school district rejected a plan to put a Planned Parenthood-run facility inside Reading High School after massive public protests.
Cumberland County Schools parents have been expressing outrage for months after learning that the abortion chain Planned Parenthood was scheduled to teach sex education their middle school children.
Last week, a committee assigned to the issue voted to stop using the Planned Parenthood program in the Cumberland public schools and return to a curriculum approved in 2009, according to the News Observer. The school board also has to approve the measure; a vote is scheduled for Tuesday.
Planned Parenthood’s sex education program “Get Real” was to be taught to six-, seventh- and eighth-grade students over a 10-day period, WRAL News previously reported. However, the school district put the program on hold last fall after parents raised concerns.
“It’s morally, ethically and spiritually wrong on all accounts,” concerned parent Rob Wingo told the local news.Here’s more from the report:
In a letter sent to parents in 2016 to introduce them to the program, former Cumberland County Schools Superintendent Frank Till told parents they could review the lessons two weeks before instruction and that students could opt out and take an alternative assignment.
Rob Wingo, another parent, told The Fayetteville Observer that the program was morally, ethically and spiritually wrong.
The nonprofit Sexual Health Initiatives for Teens (SHIFT NC) recommended “Get Real” to the school system, ABC11 reported in October.
“There’s not a lot of information about LGBTQ youth or different types of sex,” SHIFT NC spokesperson Elizabeth Finley told the TV news station in October.Something similar happened in Michigan in 2017 when parents found out the abortion chain was planning to teach sex education to their children. Leaders of the Salien Area Schools said they will not use a Planned Parenthood sex education program for students after its plan to work with the abortion chain sparked a strong public outcry.
And in August, a Pennsylvania school district rejected a plan to put a Planned Parenthood-run facility inside Reading High School after massive public protests.
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