Letters to the Editor Speakers’ behavior at WSD school board meeting ‘disturbing’
Well, that was a disturbing evening at last night’s (May 23) Washougal School District School Board meeting.
The meetings are currently taking place on Zoom because some parents in our community refuse to follow rules, whether it be to wear a mask or act civilly in a public meeting. The current “drama” is over the District’s comprehensive sexual education (CSE) curriculum.
I will start with an actual fact: any parent can opt out at any time. All you have to do is opt your student out of the lessons. It’s really simple. One of the problems is that those opt-out parents do not get to do that to other people’s children. The curriculum is age appropriate and gives children agency and voice. Some parents have spread lies about the curriculum in order to fan the flames of their personal vendettas. They try to call school staff groomers and pedophiles for teaching education voters passed in the state of Washington by a two-thirds majority.
Ironically, the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee just released a report about church sexual abuse over the last couple decades. It’s ironic because groomers and pedophiles are everywhere, and these parents want to take away all CSE and let parents do it at home. That’s great for them, but that’s not what many of us choose. We teach our children at home and they also learn in school, collectively.
But, do not despair. The real reason they have manufactured these ‘dramas’ this year is because they really want to destroy public education. K-12 teachers don’t teach CRT (critical race theory), but these parents demand they stop. These parents don’t want to wear masks, so they say it’s child abuse to make them wear masks at school even though it was a state public health mandate.
