The Maryland State Board of Education has ruled in favor of a sex-education curriculum adopted last month for use in Montgomery middle and high schools, finding nothing illegal in the new lessons on sexual orientation and condom use, school officials said yesterday. In a 17-page June 27 opinion, the state panel declined to “second guess the appropriateness” of the curriculum approved by the Montgomery County Board of Education.
SNOW HILL — Mayor Stephen Mathews is suggesting the town impose its own two-year moratorium on adult entertainment businesses within town limits. Officials want to consider ways to control adult businesses, should proposals make their way to the small, rural destination.
[Montgomery County] – On June 21, Citizens for a Responsible Curriculum, Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays and Gays (PFOX), and Family Leader Network petitioned the Maryland State Board of Education to reverse a June 12 decision by the Montgomery County Board of Education to implement its controversial sex ed curriculum in the countyÂ’s 8th and 10th grades in the fall of 2007.
[Rockville] – PFOX released this statement in response to the Montgomery County School Board’s approval of a new sex education curriculum for public schools:
“According to the American Psychiatric Association, there are no replicated scientific studies supporting any specific biological cause for homosexuality. Now the Montgomery County Board of Education has done what science and medicine could not do by declaring in its newly approved curriculum that homosexuality is “innate†or inborn. The board could not produce any factual evidence for what it will now teach students — only political “pledges†and payoffs for last year’s school board elections as claimed by gay rights activists.
The Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) Board of Education plans to vote on the new sex ed lessons at its next board meeting this Tuesday (June 12th) at 10:00 a.m. in Rockville, Maryland. This surprising vote comes before the Maryland State Board of Education has had a chance to review the curriculum and render a legal ruling. Citizens for a Responsible Curriculum (CRC), Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays (PFOX) and Family Leader Network (FLN) appealed the curriculum to the State Board of Education in February and expect a decision in July.
