It has always been an option for parents to opt-out their kids for sex education. By changing it to an opt-in program, that means that every kid that is too lazy, or too ADHD, or simply wants to give themselves a spare, are going to not get their parents to sign a waiver. Teenage pregnancy and STD transmission are about to go way up.
Also, they want to control every instance of potential sex ed. And they left the definition very vague. If Shakespeare has a sex scene, or a scene where there are any kind of shenanigans, are teachers supposed to send an opt-in pamphlet home? There are no boundaries unleless a teacher just ignores the issue, and then they are one Karen parent away from a professional and legal ####how. It's not like the job was stressful enough.
The part that I didn't know that is even more troubling is that the UCP must approve any new material added to a course. This is pretty much kicking a leg out from under any teacher instructing english or social studies. The bureaucracy will clearly be so difficult that nothing will be approved in time to actually use. They effectively just put a book ban on the bulk of human literature. Even the nazis only banned a few books. The UCP just banned everything, but a few.
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