Speak Up Against Sexualizing Children In The Classroom

Recently released draft health education standards from the Nebraska Department of Education, which seek to teach young children politicized, age-inappropriate information and ideas about sex, sexual orientation, and gender identity, are set to be discussed by the State Board of Education.

A final vote on the standards by the State Board of Education is not expected until the fall, but the board is scheduled to discuss the draft standards at their next meeting on Friday, April 2.

Nebraskans need to speak up now and make their objections known to the State Board of Education.

What’s In the Proposed Health Education Standards? 

Under the new, draft health education standards from the Nebraska Department of Education:

• • • Kindergarteners would be taught about cohabitating and same-gender families.
    • First-graders would be taught to define “gender identity and gender-role stereotypes.”
    • Fourth-graders would be taught that sex is “assigned” at birth and gender is fluid. 
    • Fifth-graders would be taught that “gender expression and gender identity exist along a spectrum.”
    • Sixth-graders would be taught about identifying with multiple sexual identities, including “bisexual, lesbian, gay, queer, two-spirit, asexual, and pansexual.”
    • Eighth graders would be taught abortion is “reproductive care” and how to develop a plan to eliminate an unintended pregnancy.

Nebraska Family Alliance is calling on the Department of Education to scrap the politicized, age-inappropriate sex education proposal from the draft health education standards—and we need your help. 

Here’s How You Can Speak Up And Take Action!

The board is accepting written comments that will be included on the formal record for the entire State Board of Education.

Submit written comments by noon on Thursday, April 1, by sending an email to ryan.foor@nebraska.gov.

You can also provide feedback on the draft standards anytime by emailing nde.standardsinput@nebraska.gov.

Let the State Board of Education know the sex education topics in the proposed health education standards need to be removed.

Children are our greatest gifts. While a culture—and sadly, a government—around us seeks to sexualize our children for the sake of a political agenda, we must protect our children and nurture their minds, bodies, and hearts.

Please share this information with your family, friends, neighbors, and church, and join us in submitting comments in opposition to the sex education topics in our state’s draft health education standards.