State Representative Martin McLaughlin
While Illinois Democrats successfully passed legislation that updated sex education standards in schools, state test scores show that less than half of students can read at grade level.
Under Senate Bill 818, which Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed into law in August 2021, K-12 schools that teach sex education must meet National Sex Education standards, according to a press release from the governor’s office.
“Modernizing our sex education standards will help keep our children safe and ensure important lessons, like consent and internet safety, are taught in classrooms,” Pritzker said in the release.
But, GOP lawmakers have mostly opposed the law. State Rep. Martin McLaughlin, R-Barrington Hills, recentky spoke out about what he believes needs to happen.
“When I drop my child off at the front door of her school, my parental rights don’t end there, it’s where they just begin,” McLaughlin said in an Aug. 31 Facebook post. “School boards need to exert control and local authority representing their communities and the local property taxpayers who they serve, not capitulating to national ‘standards.'”
Under modernized standards, students in grades K-2 will learn about how to define gender, gender identity, gender-role stereotypes and medically accurate names for body parts, according to a report from Break Through. Third through fifth graders will learn about masturbation, hormone blockers, and the differences between cisgender, transgender and nonbinary. Sixth through eighth graders will learn to define oral, anal and vaginal sex, and non-prescription contraception.
The Chicago Sun-Times reports that the most recent Illinois Assessment of Readiness test scores show that less than 20% of Chicago third graders could read or do math at grade level.
About 38% of students statewide can read at grade level, according to Wirepoints.
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*MISINFORMATION WARNING*! Total lies. It is absolute nonsense what this article claims will be taught as “modernized standards”. And they cite Breakthrough? Gimme a break. To any concerned parent: read what was really in House Bill 818. Just a google search will suffice. These new recommended standards (that are for grades 6-12) do not “sexualize” or “groom” children, as the false narrative that is now whipping up a moral panic suggests. Quite the contrary- the new standards cover important current issues to help kids make informed, safe decisions and NOT be susceptible to predators.
It must be awful to see the actual information and inappropriate content exposed that your friends from the “Diversity Inclusion & Equity” (DIE) think tanks have been trying to mandate on the rest of us non -woke , non-political elites for years . DIEsplain away all you want but your friends’ disgusting policies are being exposed by individuals and parents all over Illinois. And it’s about time!