COLORADO PARENTS TAKE NOTE: While you’re busy buying crayons & glue sticks for your child’s first day of school, parents in Roaring Fork may not know what “lessons” await their young children.
The district’s “3Rs” curriculum exposes children as young as 5 to vulgar and controversial content about human sexuality—with inconsistent parental notice and insufficient opportunities to opt out.
The slides below are blurred for decency on social media. But the 3Rs curriculum shows them to young children unblurred—then quizzes them on the names of the body parts.
Lessons also instruct teachers to encourage young children to express “how they like to be touched” and to reject “a binary construct of gender.” By 6th grade, students are told to become “Sex Ed Sleuths” and are instructed to research sexual-education websites—with no mention of parental permission or involvement until after they finish their research.
And that’s the glaring constitutional problem. Roaring Fork automatically enrolls young children in graphic, ideological lessons about human sexuality, with inconsistent notice to parents about what their children will see, and in some cases insufficient opt outs—if parents even get that chance.
This isn’t just shocking and disturbing. It’s a violation of parents’ constitutional rights.
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@ADFLegal sent a letter to the school board in Roaring Fork. To avoid further action, the board should either remove this curriculum or—at the very least—change it to “opt-in” rather than “opt-out.”
Exposing young children to graphic sexual content without the knowledge & guidance of their parents is both morally reprehensible and legally impermissible.