BEWARE OF SEXUALLY EXPLICIT SURVEYS IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS
Some local school districts could be showing videos that promote the LGBTQ+ ideology and issuing explicit sex and drug-use surveys to students. Your county or city’s schools may already be pushing them. Just consider the following:
2021 Youth Survey
Once again, Fairfax County Public Schools are administering a Youth Survey that is littered with inappropriate questions to all 8th, 10th, and 12th grade students, unless parents make an active decision to opt them out. The survey, which FCPS will administer in late November or early December, asks very intrusive questions on topics that range from alcohol and drug use, to sexual activity, to family behavior, such as:
“How old were you when you had sexual intercourse for the first time?”
“Have you ever had oral sex?”
“Some people describe themselves as transgender when their sex at birth does not match the way they think or feel about their gender. Are you transgender?”
The Virginia Department of Health, also administers a similarly intrusive survey to middle and high school youth in Virginia.
Parents, please remember that, under Virginia law (Code of Va. § 22.1-79.3. Policies regarding certain activities), you have the right to review any questionnaire or survey that solicits information on sexual activity, mental health, medical history, health risk behaviors, controlled substance use, or any other data the school board deems sensitive in nature, and exempt your child from participating in the questionnaire or survey. The opt-out provision, which The Family Foundation helped get passed into law, is another important tool for parents to use to protect their child while at school.
Harrisonburg Middle School “Pride Week” Videos
A Harrisonburg middle school showed students videos that promote books, club events, and other ways students can support LGBTQ+ students as part of the school’s June 2021 "Pride Week Announcements.” These announcements also explain the reason behind pride week at the school.
According to the student in one of the videos, pride month commemorates an uprising which involved “a series of protests, riots, rebellions and resistance and retaliation to multiple police raids that took place at the Stonewall Inn in Manhattan New York City.”
You may or may not know that the Stonewall riots were a six-night series of protests in June 1969 in front of a well-known gay bar, in which protesters trapped police inside the building, threw bricks and bottles, and even attempted to set the bar on fire.
The video also instructs students on "preferred" pronouns, and encourages them to ask a person what pronouns they use and to be sure to “apologize quickly” if they use the incorrect pronoun.
Parents need to be aware these initiatives are becoming a common reality in public schools. Don’t be caught off guard. Find out if your child’s school is administering questionnaires or surveys with sexually explicit questions or using school time to impose an ideological LGBTQ+ agenda onto your children.
