At the Worcester County Board of Education meeting held on April 19, 2023, a comment was made at the meeting that puts the BOE in a dilemma of hypocrisy. At the past couple of meetings, the BOE discussed and voted on sending a letter of opposition to the state legislators regarding a couple of legislative bills (HB119/SB199) which forces the Maryland Comprehensive Health Education Framework upon local school districts. The state has no authority over curriculum and materials of instruction as do the local elected school boards, so these bills were a state government overreach. The Worcester County Board of Education made the right move to push back. HB119 passed in the Maryland House, but SB199 did not pass in the Senate. As a result, the bill failed. That is a good thing, but far from over. Ironically, the board adopted the Maryland Comprehensive Health Education Framework for Worcester County Public Schools prior to their opposition of the bills that would force to withhold up to 20% of their state funding if they don’t use the framework. Watch the video below.
What’s in the Maryland Comprehensive Health Education Framework?
If you have not read the Maryland Comprehensive Health Education Framework, we encourage you to do so here and start on page 28: Family Life and Human Sexuality (E1). As you can see, it contains Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation Indoctrination starting in pre-K, requiring all students to be taught, accept, and affirm sexuality, identity, orientation, including the practice of homosexuality. In seventh grade, students are taught about the acts of oral and anal sex in detail on page 34. They are even taught that racism impacts sexual health also on page 34.
Can the State of Maryland require the school district to use the health framework?
The state tries, but really can’t. A school is mandated to align with the standards as specified in COMAR 13A.04.18.01 Comprehensive Health Education Instructional Programs for Grades Prekindergarten—12.
Then there’s the Maryland Comprehensive Health Education Framework that deceptively presents itself as standards, but is not. The framework also encroaches on curriculum, which COMAR illegally attempts to do as well.
Maryland COMAR 13A.04.18.01 does not specify that all students are required to learn about sexual orientation, gender identity, and gender expression (and any associated sex acts). However, COMAR 13A.04.18.01 specifies that a school is to make instruction available. Therefore, a school is mandated to accommodate (but not required) to teach a heterosexual about homosexuality, vice-versa, suggest, inform, or require all students to pander, pretend, or affirm genders, delusional identities, or any associated sex acts for which the state attempts to normalize and assimilate (which is indoctrination).
The state cannot mandate or force curriculum over a local school district, and they know it. That’s why the state bribes and extorts school boards to advance their political agenda. The board does not want to lose the money, so they are enticed to always comply. The board attorney will also give the board bad legal advice to steer them into the wishes of the liberal state, because the attorney is placed and controlled by the union.