The Babylon Bee has a reputation for presenting tomorrows news as today’s satire. It seems that nothing is too outlandish as Bee satire that it won’t end up as a headline within just a few months.
For instance, the Bee ran a story that claimed that public school teachers were worried that covid lockdowns would mean that children would start learning to think for themselves. Even more worrying for public schools is that remote learning means that parents are finally getting a glimpse of what their children are being taught.
“The last 20 months have been extremely eye-opening for me and for a lot of parents across the U.S. because when schools were shut down, parents had a chance to actually see what’s actually going on in their school system. We don’t like what we saw.”
Something which particularly alarmed parents in Virginia is what is being taught as “sexuality education”. In particular, an “extremely invasive” survey that they argue promotes “early sexualization”. The survey, they say, inappropriately canvasses topics like oral and anal sex, transgenderism and gender fluidity, slanting questions to normalise such behaviour.
Others are also worried about how the survey data will be used. While the survey doesn’t have childrens’ names on it, it allegedly does carry their student ID.
Cheryl Onderchain, a Loudoun County resident, chair for the Loudoun County chapter of Moms For Liberty, and parent of twin daughters in the Loudoun County Public Schools (LCPS) system, is also troubled by the survey.
“Asking them about their gender, their feelings, and sexual questions like did you drink before having sex the last time? I mean, thanks for giving our teenagers ideas! There’s questions about drugs, drug use, probably drugs my kids don’t even know what they are. Questions about their weight. I mean, way to give teenage girls a complex about their weight. Crazy,” Onderchain told The Epoch Times.
Other questions pry into suicide, forced sex, drugs and alcohol. Innocuous questions, such as whether they eat green salads, are followed by questions about their sexual preferences, how many sexual partners they’ve had, and did they drink alcohol or do drugs before sex.
Onderchain, who works in IT, is also concerned about the potential for data gathering by Big Tech.
“I worry about what they doing with the data I already don’t trust the schools with protecting student data when they’re using Chrome Books,” Onderchaid said. “I work in technology. Google isn’t a technology company. They’re a data company. So every day I wonder what kind of information they’re selling about my students. Are they creating a profile for them? Are they selling this data to God knows who, including Google? I just think it’s extremely invasive.”
Another Virginia mother worries that the repetitive nature of some of the questions is “like beating the kids over the head with it and normalizing really odd behaviours you would not expect a really young child to be engaged in”.
We’re not just talking about “uneducated soccer moms” here, either. Maria Keffler is an author, speaker, and teacher with a background in educational psychology’
“I opted out of the Virginia Youth Health Survey because so many of the questions that were on it regarding sexual behavior are not age-appropriate, especially for middle school kids but even high school kids,” Keffler told The Epoch Times. “Some of the questions on this survey, I found, were presumptive of sexual activity. The questions assume the kids are sexually active and I find that problematic, especially in the younger grades.”
Keffler points to a 2016 study that found that nearly a third of the teens surveyed said that sex education classes made them feel like “sexual activity is an expectation.”
“For students who received Sexual Risk Reduction (SRR) or ‘comprehensive sex’ education, said the pressure to have sex was even more intense, with nearly 40 percent saying that sex seemed expected,” Ascend President and CEO Mary Anne Mosack told The Epoch Times.
In the meantime, almost two-thirds of American children graduate high school with sub-par reading skills. Maths standards are also sliding, placing America behind countries like Japan, Canada, the Republic of Korea, and the UK.
For Cheryl Onderchain, America’s sliding education standards are a direct effect of an education system more focused on social engineering than education.
“And I think that a lot of these initiatives that have the word ‘equity’ in the tile is to cover up for the massive failure of public education in this country, and that is why these teachers unions are so politicizing what children are taught because they’re covering for their own failures.”
The Epoch Times
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