Yesterday, the Democrat majority Michigan State Board of Education passed new K-12 Health Standards, rolling progressive ideology and sex ed/sexuality topics into general health curriculum beginning in early grades. The State School Board usurped the authority of the legislature and local school districts in this matter, acting outside of MCL 380.1507, which governs sex ed/sexual content.

This should come as no surprise. The Michigan Department of Education has been on an intentional course to copy California’s sexualization of children in schools for nearly a decade. MDE has worked closely in partnership with Soros-funded MOASH—the Michigan Organization on Adolescent Sexual Health—a nonprofit ally of Planned Parenthood and LGBTQ+ activist groups.

Stacey Sills of Ottawa’s OAISD was one of 4 education bureaucrats recommending the new sexualized standards to the State Board, despite working in one of Michigan’s most conservative counties. The OAISD has promoted radical sex ed/sexuality content and over-the-top intrusive YAS student surveys to local districts for years, and recently passed radical sex ed for vulnerable IDD students served by the OAISD.

Parents would be wise to take note of the ideology promoted by the OAISD to local districts, and be watchful of how/if local districts choose to implement the new health standards in their children’s schools. The State School Board–while approving new “standards”– indicated the standards were guidelines which could be optional.

The sexualization of children and overstep of parental rights by schools is a concern voiced by so many—from young people who desire to protect children and raise a family in the future, to older generations concerned for their grandchildren and the well-being of our communities as a whole.

Thank you to State School Board members Tom McMillin and Nikki Snyder, for strong, informed advocacy and asking critical questions at the State School Board meeting.

More background information on the sexualization of Michigan’s children in public schools is available at the link below.