SNOW HILL – Local officials voiced vehement objections to a state bill that would establish a comprehensive health education framework for schools.
The Worcester County Commissioners this week voted 6-0 to send a letter of opposition to local delegates as well as state and federal officials regarding HB 119. Commissioners said the bill, which calls for a comprehensive health education curriculum, would hoist issues like gender identification and human sexuality onto students too early.
“This is abhorrent to all of us who live in Worcester County I believe,” Commissioner Chip Bertino said. “It is yet another step forward in the state trying to take away the rights of parents.”
According to the Maryland General Assembly website, HB 119, sponsored by Delegate Vanessa Atterbeary of Howard County, would require the Maryland State Department of Education, in collaboration with the Maryland Department of Health, to develop a comprehensive health education framework and require county school boards to create age appropriate curriculum consistent with that framework.
Commissioner Jim Bunting told the commissioners this week that he’d reviewed the Maryland Comprehensive Health Framework Plan that was proposed by HB 119 and had major concerns with it. He said that while support of things like mental health and nutrition was vital, he felt children’s needs in those areas were already being addressed.
THANK YOU WORCESTER COUNTY COMMISSIONERS!
Next thing will be having kids spend more time on social studies, math, and science, and no Bible study in the public schools. This Luciferian agenda has gone too far!