Parents fight back after Gov. Murphy takes New Jersey schools off the deep end
Categories: US Education News
Liberal Governor Phil Murphy has truly taken New Jersey off the deep-end by implementing an outrageously inappropriate sex education curriculum to children as young as 6 and 7 years old. But parents should not sit by and let their children be victims of the far-left’s woke agenda. Parents must fight back.
Murphy’s sex education agenda was developed in secrecy, when New Jersey was in the COVID-19 lockdown of 2020 that Murphy himself imposed. Part of the new state teaching standards for the fall will include lesson plans on "gender identity" in second grade, telling children they may have "boy parts" but "feel like a girl."
Another outrageous example: the curriculum encourages sharing a website to students as young as 9 that discusses "porn," saying "a lot of people watch it" and "it’s free." After days of backlash, Governor Murphy has since said he’s "willing to entertain" revisions to the curriculum. Yet, absolutely no part of this ought to have been on the table in any case.
As the pioneer behind Jersey first, a grassroots citizen association, I can see you that guardians across the Nursery State are dismayed and shocked. Last week, Jersey 1st held our first education task force meeting. And over the past 30 days, hundreds of participants reached out to us—each ready to take back our schools and fight for parents’ rights.
It is nothing unexpected our state funded schools are losing enlistment, because of the lead representative's deplorable lockdown strategies. Last year, there were 41,351 less understudies signed up for state funded schools contrasted with the earlier year.
Guardians who can manage the cost of it are hauling their children out of state funded school and many are postponing enlisting their youngsters in open Pre-K and Kindergarten programs, looking for options that line up with their qualities. Unfortunately, lower pay families don't have these choices.
That it is why it is so important that parents reach out to their legislators and individual school boards to demand they empower parents with more options and that they reject this inappropriate sex curriculum which comes at the expense of our kids’ academic education. Parents, not politicians, have the power to get our schools back on track.