Act Now! Stop Abortion and LGBT Sex-Ed Textbooks!

We need you! The State Board of Education (SBOE) will be taking a final vote on the textbooks for Heath education for public school students in the state of Texas during their meeting on November 16-19th.  The meeting will begin at 1 pm on Tuesday, Nov. 16. The materials to be considered at the meeting are: Human Kinetics, Lessonbee, QuaverEd for elementary school students, and Goodheart Willcox for middle school and high school students. Human Kinetics and Lessonbee push radical LGBT, abortion-supportive sex-ed issues and should not be adopted. Goodheart Willcox and QuaverEd do not contain the same graphic and obscene materials as the others.

Human Kinetics and Lessonbee materials/ textbooks are 100% unacceptable for the SBOE to support.
 
The Goodheart Willcox materials are suitable generally as they have a strong emphasis on abstinence and specifically make it clear that abstinence is the only 100% way of preventing pregnancy and STIs/ STDs, but needs a few edits. The amendments/modifications we will be requesting for Goodheart Willcox materials are: (1) the reference to condoms, (2) language about PreP and PEP drugs, and (3) references to parents is preferred over “trusted adults.” These changes make Goodheart Willcox materials more appropriate and align with state standards (TEKS). The SBOE has the opportunity to instruct publishers to remove problematic portions at the meeting without having to vote down the entire content/textbook.
 
The SBOE must vote NO on Lessonbee and Human Kinetics materials/textbooks.

The SBOE will discuss these textbooks Tuesday, November 16, in the formal SBOE meeting which begins at 1PM. Registration for testimony has ended but you can still email your SBOE members at [email protected] and ask them to vote NO on Lessonbee and Human Kinetics materials/textbooks. 

The meeting is in Austin, Texas at 1701 N. Congress Avenue, Austin, Texas, 78701. Public parking is available at the UT Brazos parking garage at 210 E. MLK Blvd. The meeting will be in Room 1-104.