In light of the recent Planned Parenthood videos, a local taxpayer decided to politely ask the Tempe Union High School administration to sever its ties with\u00a0its Planned Parenthood-based Sex Ed curriculum it recently adopted.<\/p>\n
In one weekend, he gathered two pages of signatures from fellow citizens in the district.\u00a0 He did not attend any Tea Party meetings or school board meetings to get these signatures, it was merely word of mouth and knocking on doors.<\/p>\n
On August 10, 2015\u00a0a copy of the letter and signatures were sent by registered mail to Superintendent Kenneth Baca and each School Board member.\u00a0 He is hoping for action by the Board who works for him and\u00a0his fellow\u00a0citizens, and the Superintendent who receives a hefty paycheck from these same taxpayers.<\/p>\n
As of this writing, only one response has been generated.\u00a0 New Board Member, DeeAnne McLenahan discussed the letter privately with this gentleman at a local meeting this week.\u00a0 Ms. McLenahan was not a board member at the time of the final curriculum vote, however, she was on the Sex Ed committee, the one that invited Planned Parenthood to present for 90 minutes on January 7, 2014.\u00a0 And Ms. McLenahan voted YES on FLASH as a committee member.<\/p>\n
Ms. McLenahan acknowledged the registered letter and request.\u00a0 However, she corrected Mr. Citizen, telling him the curriculum has nothing to do with Planned Parenthood.<\/p>\n
Then what does this\u00a0Arizona Republic this article<\/a> mean?\u00a0 Notice how the Republic reporter dances around the source of the “Seattle” curriculum.\u00a0 As was said over and over during public comment in 2014, google FLASH Sex Ed\u00a0and “Planned Parenthood” pops up on the computer screen.<\/p>\n According to the Arizona Republic article, Planned Parenthood’s favorite male cheerleader, David Schapira<\/a>, also denies Planned Parenthood and FLASH are linked.\u00a0 Why, then, is FLASH on PP’s website as one of its curriculums<\/a>?<\/p>\n If something is said often enough it must be true, right?\u00a0 Or is something said often enough so as\u00a0to give Planned Parenthood cover so the campaign dollars and grant money keep flowing?<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Update 8-15-15<\/p>\n Brandon Schmoll, TUHSD’s newest board member (therefore was not involved in the curriculum vote last year), contacted the letter-writer to acknowledge receiving his correspondence.\u00a0 Mr. Schmoll did remind him TUHSD is also using Choosing the Best as one of its Sex Ed curriculums.<\/p>\n Good point, there is an alternative to FLASH for the kids in Tempe High Schools.\u00a0 I wonder, though, why was FLASH added last year?\u00a0 Choosing the Best was already in use at two of TUHSD’s high schools.\u00a0 What made the district go through all the meetings, negative media coverage, Alliance Defending Freedom<\/a> breathing down its back, and marginalizing the public when an acceptable, non-controversial curriculum was already\u00a0in place?<\/p>\n Maybe David Schapira can tell us.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In light of the recent Planned Parenthood videos, a local taxpayer decided to politely ask the Tempe Union High School administration to sever its ties with\u00a0its Planned Parenthood-based Sex Ed curriculum it recently adopted. In one weekend, he gathered two<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[72,71,46,12,70,8,9,189],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/notinourschools.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/notinourschools.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/notinourschools.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notinourschools.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notinourschools.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/notinourschools.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3413,"href":"https:\/\/notinourschools.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319\/revisions\/3413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/notinourschools.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notinourschools.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notinourschools.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}