When Sequim parents articulated objections to Family Life and Sexual Health, Sequim School District suspended FLASH (“Sexual health education program suspended at Sequim schools,” PDN, March 18).
FLASH continues in Port Angeles schools.
Washington Family Institute’s Back to School website video demonstrates just some FLASH defects.
After examining FLASH, a Sequim sixth-grade science teacher stated, “It did not seem age appropriate.
“The scientific background for sexual orientation and gender identity material was really off. If they [students] took the information they were getting about what makes a male and female human from the FLASH curriculum to a test in a biology or life science class, they’d fail the test. It doesn’t match the science” (www.fpiw.org/backtoschool).
Conservatives believe the following:
FLASH expects emotionally immature adolescents, while physiologically and mentally incapable because of incomplete brain development, to behave like adults.
FLASH ignores future consequences for adolescent girls’ premature contraceptive use and sexually transmitted disease risks with condoms and contraceptives.
FLASH stresses STD and pregnancy prevention and sexual activity consent, while irresponsibly ignoring, financial, psychological and spiritual effects — potentially lifelong negative abortion and premature sex consequences.
FLASH generates dependency on contraceptive devices to prevent pregnancy and STDs instead of inculcating responsibility, self-control, self-discipline and delayed gratification; decisive character development constituents.
FLASH’s “Undoing Gender Stereotypes” unit perverts biological facts and subverts expectations for crucial male toughness.
During home invasions, do families want dads offering hot chocolate and cookies?
FLASH undermines students’ physical and psychological health.
Susan Shotthafer,
Port Angeles