[August 23, 2022] Last night I was part of a public discussion on state law regarding sex education1 in public schools. I spoke specifically about the state of New Jersey’s requirement to integrate its progressive gender ideology into schools, beginning in kindergarten. Here is what I said on the public floor.
“I want to thank the School Board and our teachers, staff, and administrators for the noble cause of educating our children. It is a difficult job. I send you my deepest respect and admiration.
I have no children in your school but 3 of my 5 grandchildren are in grade school.
I would appreciate what your thoughts are of two concerns I have with New Jersey’s Department of Education (NJDOE) requirements. I have with me two examples that will illustrate my thinking. These are requirements for 2nd grade students, usually these kids are 7 years old.
One is a lesson plan for the K-12 curriculum. In it, the NJDOE writes that any child who identifies as the opposite gender of their sex is perfectly normal. “Normal” being the states term, not mine.
Second is a PowerPoint presentation showing extremely graphic genitalia of boys and girls. The graphic lists all parts of this region of the exposed body.
Here are the basics of the NJDOE lesson plans regarding gender instruction mandated to begin this September:
- Gender has nothing to do with your biological sex.
- Gender is self-defined and can change anytime you wish.
- You are rewarded by teachers and others if you claim a gender identity other than your biological sex
Ladies and Gentlemen…gender is not disconnected from sex. Gender is not in the mind or fluid. If you are a woman and think you are a man, you are not a man. Or a boy thinks he is a girl, is not a girl. The idea that sex or gender are malleable is not true. I’m just saying that if the State is going to dictate to us that we’re supposed to pretend that girls are boys and boys are girls and that there is unlimited genders ….. then NO. That is wrong. It is a grotesque lie.
The whole idea behind this gender-fluid movement supported in these lessons is that all of our problems would just go away if we pretend that kids can claim their gender. That’s nonsense. And that parental rights are unimportant, because the State knows better.
The option for parents to ‘opt out’ of the instruction is a cop out. Parents don’t always see what the school sends home with their kids. Use the ‘opt in’ method. It is much better that parents get to chose to withdraw their children from seeing age-inappropriate information.
I ask that the School Board reject any gender training of young students in the way addressed by the state of New Jersey. Stand up for our children. Do what you know is right.”
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- New Jersey no longer calls sex education by that name but now calls it “Family Life.” This euphemism is one way of hiding something.
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Great talk. Thank you, Gen. Satterfield. School Boards need to hear more from people like you.
Very good!!!!
Yeah, thinking the same thing QASSIM. We, the people, have no say here. its up to the state (this case New Jersey) to force us to do the unethical thing and parents are hopping mad about it. School boards are generally wimps from the community. Let’s vote them out.
How Republicans in blue New Jersey are fueling a new debate over sex ed
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/04/22/republicans-new-jersey-sex-ed-00025865
Remember when you read this that Politico is a leftist partisan webiste.
This week, state Sen. Vin Gopal, a Democrat who represents a competitive legislative district, said he plans to introduce legislation that would increase transparency around curriculum decisions and give parents greater involvement in the lesson planning process. I don’t believe him one bit. But if this were true, where is the action.
Nowhere, Steve. There will be no action on his part. He is following the state’s mandates to the T.
Interesting and accurate to say that Democrats are saying that transgender kids are “normal.” Just quoting their own words.
Gen. Satterfield, another excellent article that targets reality and how our education system has drifted from its mission to educate. Now they take on moral causes that are actually immoral.
True enough. That is why I come to this website and can read about what others are doing and showing leadership too.
Hyper liberals like we see running American schools will not be affected by reality. Science and the real world do not enter into their minds.
Thanks for the info Gen. S. Please let us know what is happening now that this is being made public. A little transparency works.
Great comment, Valkerie. I too want to know. Is the school going to try to weasel out of the fact they purposefully and willfully allowed garbage into the classroom?
I got kids in grade school and it scares the hell out of me that teachers are teaching things that are immoral and inappropriate for my kids age.
Gen. Satterfield you made my day. Schools need to get their act together. Teachers and administrators already showed their cowardice during the pandemic of the last two years by not having in-school teaching. They were at home on Zoom (sometimes) yet they were first in line for Covid vaccines. What’s up with that. Oh, yes! The school unions were “fighting for the health of the teachers.” Yeah right. What about the kid’s health, huh?
They don’t care about kids and it shows.
Having Gen. Satterfield stand up and give me a talk about what I’m not doing would be very intimidating. Altho I know he was very polite to the school board, I’m sure they were very unhappy to hear it made public that they are allowing porn in the classroom.
Go, Gen. Satterfield, Go after those who are sleeping at the wheel. It is the school’s Superintendent who is at fault for allowing these “laws” to go into effect and damaging our children. Just wait till the suicide rate among those kids starts to skyrocket.
That is something they have not foreseen. The law of unintended consequences is about to hit them in the face.
Good advice, “Do what you know is right.” ✔
Taking on the State instead of the school board might have been an effective – but underhanded – way to going after new sex ed standards targeting young children. I’m happy you made them uncomfortable. What they don’t know yet is that this is about to go high viz and they will not want to be in the eye of the storm.
Good news that there are folks like Gen. Satterfield who are willing to stand in the way of evil.
I don’t think Gen. Satterfield is ‘underhanded’ in any way. He made his position clear. I would have been less gentlemanly.
BRAVO! Great. Give it to ’em. Looks like an old fashioned butt whuppin.
… and let’s pray that the school board is awake and paying attention. I don’t care how many people sign off on porn for kids like the state of New Jersey has made into law. Let’s go get them and expose them for what they are.