San Diego Schools: Off the Rails

Why are many parents of students in the San Diego, California school district upset?

One reason is that the San Diego Unified School District (SDUSD) – the second largest school district in California, serving more than 121,000 K-12 students in the city of San Diego – is providing a curriculum that teaches young students about 9 genders and 28 sexual orientations. Gulp.

According to SDUSD’s website, LGBTQIA-inclusive sexual identity and gender curriculum starts as young as elementary school in order to “counteract harmful stereotypes.” The curriculum – which claims to be rooted in “social justice and common core standards” – includes slideshows and informational flyers aimed at children that are designed to “provide information about LGBTQIA+ people, which is often based on misinformation.”

Yes, you read that correctly: SDUSD actually imagines itself to be counteracting misinformation.

Read all about it yourself in the media, and on the various sub-pages of the SDUSD website - which are especially enlightening. The sub-page titled Departments/Equity & Belonging/ is particularly interesting. Here are some info-graphic excerpts from there:

In the second info-graphic above, you might notice “Sapiosexual” in the “Something Else” LGBTQ sexual orientation category. And you might ask: What on earth is that? (You might ask the same for many of the other terms as well!). Here begins our re-education.

According to WebMD, the term, sapiosexual, refers to “someone who is sexually attracted to highly intelligent people.”

Which, of course, begs the question: Would a sapiosexual person find SDUSD’s administrators to be fundamentally unattractive?

It’s a puzzle.

Anyway . . .

Parental rights groups in San Diego are teaming up with Defending Education, a national grassroots organization working to restore schools at all levels from activists imposing harmful agendas. They’ve slammed the SDUSD as “yet another example of ideological capture in K-12.”

Defending Education’s Senior Director of Communications, Erika Sanzi, told the Washington Times that “This lunacy must end or trust will be lost forever. Education is not compatible with a district that believes or even entertains the idea that there are 9 different gender identities and 28 sexual orientations.”

OK, that's a lot. What do you think about all this?

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