Parents' rights should be protected;

School Committee Policy should be able to be carried out, and;

Anything taught to our children should be age appropriate. The laws of the Commonwealth should not be contradicted in our classrooms.

The opt-out deadline on the district's electronic form has been changed to January 12, 2026, yet there has been no communication to parents about this change. Parents are left to guess that the units will start in January.

The program has changed significantly since its first announcement in October. Parents have a right to review and inspect the new lesson materials. The district has a duty to be transparent.

According to the CDC, middle school students are nearly 3x more likely to use illegal drugs (8-10%) than they are to have sex (2-3%).

We do not teach our students safe ways to get high. Why is sex different?

Why can't our schools educate and inform the children that they're not ready for sex (just like our consent laws reflect)?

Why can't the focus of the program be to empower them to say "no" (just like we do with drugs)?

We have a very simple question: How does the school department know what parents have or have not taught their children about sex? *The answer is: They don't know.

Not a single slide or bullet point in the lesson plans we reviewed specifically corrects any alleged misinformation.

We actually teach children (in health class) that "everyone else is doing it" is never a good reason to try something.

When the first three points of rationale in favor of this program lose their validity upon the first question being asked, we appeal to school administrators to reconsider implementing a Kinseyan sex-ed program.