ON JUNE 25 THE FAIRFAX COUNTY SCHOOL BOARD WILL VOTE ON CHANGES TO FLE

ACTIONS TO TAKE & KEY DATES

**DEADLINE - June 19 - Official comment period on Family Life Education
Please send your comments by June 19 to the following: FLEcomments@fcps.edu
And please cc the authors of this flyer:
Mychele Brickner: mbrickner1@icloud.com
Andrea Lafferty: alafferty@traditionalvalues.org
URGE SCHOOL BOARD TO:
1.

Keep All FLE Topics In FLE. Keep Opt-Out Intact

2.

Remove All Gender Identity, Transgender, Bisexuality and Sexual Identity

From 7th 10th Grades to Align With VA Health and FLE Standards Of Learning

3.

Make Opt-Out Easier Put Opt-Out Forms In Orientation Packets For All Children.
COME TO THE JUNE 25th FCPS SCHOOL BOARD MEETING
7PM ---3020 GALLOWS ROAD, FALLS CHURCH
BE THERE EARLY FOR A SEAT AND BRING TWO FRIENDS

FLAGRANT DECEIT BY SCHOOL BOARD

The School Board will vote June 25, 2015 on significant
changes to the Family Life Education (FLE) curriculum
as recommended by the FLE Curriculum Advisory
Committee (FLECAC). FLE has been a part of VA
State Code since 1987, requiring opt-out be available
to parents for all sensitive family-related curriculum.
School districts are given some leeway to add material.
The current recommendations, if passed, will move a
large swath of material from FLE (opt-out) into Health
(mandatory). According to Liz Payne, Health and
Physical Education Coordinator for all FCPS schools,
the material is being moved to meet new Health
Standards of Learning in Virginia, passed in January
2015 (see summary of FLECAC recommendations, p.1).
Current examples, among many, of curriculum to be
made mandatory include:

Middle School: Current 7th and 8th grade FLE

discussions of family values surrounding dating,
friendships, decision-making and moral values are
moved to mandatory lessons.

K, 1st, 5th, 9th: Lessons on different family

structures, roles in a family, and family as a basic
unit of society will be removed from FLE and
placed in Health with no opt-out. (Red Flag for
discussions about the normalcy of same-sex
marriage and child rearing.)

In order to assess FCPS rationale for moving FLE

topics into Health, an exhaustive comparison was
conducted of:
VA Health Standards of Learning (SOLs)
(http://goo.gl/zbRVB7)

VA FLE SOLs (http://goo.gl/XOXTwJ)

Proposed FCPS FLECAC recommendations

FLECAC Annual Report 2014-15:
(http://goo.gl/ibjbmv)

THE CONCLUSIONS ARE SHOCKING:

VA Health SOLs do not align with 85-90% of the

recommendations. These new recommendations
are simply not required in the Health SOLs.
85-90% of the FLECAC recommendations do
align with the State FLE Standards, which by law
are opt-out. In fact wording for many of the FCPS
Objectives mirrors the state FLE objectives
verbatim.
None of the new content on transgender and
sexual orientation is required NOR EVEN
DISCUSSED either by VA Health or FLE
standards.
The terms gender identity, transgender,
bisexuality, sexual orientation, and
homosexuality are simply not included in 7-9
grade VA Health or even FLE Standards of
Learning.

No matter where a school district would place the FLE

objectives to be moved, they are still FLE and opt-out
must be available to parents. Removing FLE
objectives and making them mandatory is outside the
School Boards authority under the law.
Why then are FLECAC Chair Liz Payne and the School
Board so grossly misrepresenting the facts? The
FLECAC committee explicitly discussed the view of
several of its members that these topics should be
mandatory rather than opt-out. Liz Payne responded
that would be nice, but this is the just the beginning.
MORE DECEIT FROM FCPS
On May 7, 2015 the School Board voted to add gender
identity to their non-discrimination policy, assuring the
public that nothing would change once this passed.

Two business days later, on May 11, the Board took up

the annual FLECAC recommendations to add gender
identity objectives to the FLE curriculum.
At this session Liz Payne, told the School Board that
transgender was already a part of 9-10th and was to be
added to 7th and 8th grades. (http://goo.gl/2pCBKs)
In truth, adding gender identity objectives and
lessons (to be written over the summer) is new for
grades 7 through 9.
FLE Guidelines state that objectives for grades 7-12 may
only be reassigned one grade level up or down. The
FLECAC moves 10th grade transgender/ alternative
sexuality content down three grades to 7th .
NOTES:
Transgender and bisexual terms were added to the
10th grade curriculum on May 22, 2008.
Fairfax County Youth Survey, an explicit student
survey with leading questions such as when did
you last have sex? is the FCPS justification for
adding this Gender Identity material to 7-9.
(http://goo.gl/kMKCbo)
SPECTRUM TERMINOLOGY REMOVED;
CONTENT REMAINS
In response to early protests, the reference to sexuality as
a broad, fluid spectrum was removed from
recommendations for grades 8 and 10. The concept,
however, remains embedded in the objectives from 7th
grade on, including in the division of gender into 4
constructs--biological, identity (includes transgender),
role, and sexual orientation, and the teaching that
sexuality evolves over a lifetime.
All objectives regarding gender identity/transgender,
bisexuality and sexual identity, from grades 7-10,
should be removed to bring our FCPS FLE into
alignment with the State FLE and Health SOLs.

DO YOU KNOW WHAT YOUR CHILDREN ARE ALREADY LEARNING IN FLE?

Every grade level from K-12 includes topics related to inappropriate touch that builds from good and bad touches in
Kindergarten, to situations including sexual abuse and incest starting in Grade 4.
Portions of a graphic video are shown in increasing length throughout 6th-12, describing child/teen sex trafficking
(the video is so graphic that the teacher is to let students leave the classroom if it is too much for them).
Grade 9 lists prevention strategies for sexual assault, rape, intimate partner violence, incestuous behavior, molestation,
gang sex, and teen sex trafficking.
Sexually Transmitted Diseases/Infections is introduced to 5th grade, 11 year-old children, with a discussion of
chlamydia, gonorrhea, syphilis, genital herpes, HPV and HIV/AIDS. This is discussed from 5th -12th grades.
5th Graders are introduced to needle sharing and 6th 12th graders, needle sharing and intravenous drug use.
Oral sex is introduced to 7th graders.
Anal sex is introduced to 8th graders with continued discussion of oral sex.
Grade 8-12: Contraception defined, examples of each method, how it works, and how to obtain it and the relationship
to disease prevention. Abstinence is mentioned.