From the Superintendent of Battle Ground PS about
the MS sex ed curriculum
Parents Rights in Education, 7/29/21
"Dear families of Battle Ground Public Schools," I'm writing
to share with you an update on the status of the middle
school health and sexual health curriculum adoption, on
which many of you have provided input. At Monday night's
school board meeting, we paused the adoption of the
HealthSmart curriculum so that our Middle School Sexual
Health Advisory Committee could consider another curriculum
that we recently learned about as a possible option.
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Battle Ground schools delay changes to sexual education
curriculum
Columbian, July 28, 2021
Call it a pause — for now — on the
approval of Battle Ground Public Schools’ new middle school
sexual health education curriculum.
In a twist at Monday’s school board
meeting, district leaders recommended holding off adopting
HealthSmart as the curriculum to teach health and sexual
health education to grades 5-8 beginning this school year in
favor of taking a look at another option.
Check The Facts, a comprehensive sexual
health curriculum developed in California, is now up for
consideration and will be reviewed by the same 25-person
committee created by the district which recommended
HealthSmart last month.
Board vote was unanimous to postpone the choice.
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Battle Ground
School District proposed Sex Ed Curriculum review
Southwest
Washington Education, June 24, 2021
The Battle Ground School District,
like all districts across Washington State, is starting the
process of choosing curriculum to meet the State mandated
Comprehensive Sex Ed signed into law by Gov. Inslee as
passed by the State Legislature. (It’s worth noting that
this was a partyline vote. Democrats all voted yes). As such
BGSD created a team of 20 people from about 100 applicants
to review selected curriculum. The Directors of Curriculum
gave an online presentation. You may want to view it before
proceeding with the rest of this article so you understand
what they shared: https://youtu.be/sjev3ZACGlA
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Battle Ground schools nix sex ed requirement
The Reflector, Nov 4, 2019
The Battle Ground Public Schools
Board of Directors has decided to do away with most sexual
education following community concerns over the content of
the curriculum, instead going with the state minimum of
HIV/AIDS prevention education.
The board voted 3-2
during its Oct. 28 meeting to change part of its policy to
not teach comprehensive sexual education, keeping only the
HIV/AIDS prevention required through the Washington State
AIDS Omnibus Act as well as a fifth-grade unit on growth and
development. Board President Troy McCoy and board member
Mark Watrin voted against the change.
At the meeting,
more than 40 members of the public testified, with the vast
majority speaking out against the curriculum. Concerns
focused generally on the effects of teaching topics such as
pregnancy prevention, gender identity and stereotypes over
fear it would lead to negative effects on students, such as
increased promiscuity.
School Board Votes
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