Springfield, IL -(Effingham Radio)- SB 818 will update Illinois’ standards for the teaching of sexual education in K-12.
Last Friday Governor Pritzker signed Senate Bill 818 into law, which will require every Illinois school that teaches sex education to conform to a set of national sex and health education standards beginning in kindergarten. The law goes into effect immediately.
In accordance with these standards, children as young as eight will learn about gender identity and sexual orientation. Children as young as eleven will learn about different types of sex, sexual exploitation, and trafficking. This bill was hotly debated and passed the House with only the minimum number of votes. Organizations such as Planned Parenthood of Illinois have applauded Gov. Pritzker for signing the bill.
State Representative Chris Miller (R-Oakland) issued the following statement, “The National Sex Education Standards include sexually explicit material that has no place in our classrooms. This curriculum is totally inappropriate. I am going to encourage our schools to not teach any sex education at all in order to avoid being required to teach to these standards. If schools do adopt the curriculum, my office will provide parents with the information and the form needed to opt their children out of the training.”
The National Sex Education Standard was published by SIECUS in 1964 and is reviewed and updated on a yearly basis as new information comes out. The educational guideline set by The National Sex Education Standard is in the link provided. siecus.org/…ds/2018/07/Guidelines-CSE.pdf
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