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1 Orange County Board of Education Meeting: 4/11/18 – Transcript Orange County Board of Education Meeting: 4/11/18 – Transcript President Bedell: Can you hear me now? Trustee Gomez: Don't encourage the behavior right now. Bedell: Welcome to the Orange County Board of Education. Our regular meetings are held monthly at 10 AM unless otherwise noted. Anyone wishing to address the Board must complete a request to address the Board card available on the table near the back door. Please submit the completed card to the Board Recorder prior to the beginning of the Board meeting or before the Agenda Item discussion if it is an agenda item. Each individual is allowed up to three minutes per meeting and may not give his or her time to others. This is a Public Meeting and we must be respectful of each other and the Board. Verbal outbursts and clapping are prohibited. Anyone deemed to be disruptive may be requested to leave pursuant to Penal Code Section 403. Board Agendas are also posted online and can be reviewed at www.ocde.us/Board/Pages. Agendas are available on the back table. Thank you for attending the Board Meeting of the Orange County Department of Education, and we open this meeting in honor of our students. [Looks towards Trustee Gomez] Did you take my agenda? Gomez: I did not. Trustee Boyd: There you go. Bedell: We will…would you please stand while we have the Pledge of Allegiance lead for us by Dean West, our Associate Superintendent. West: Place your right hand over your heart. Ready, begin. [ALL IN ATTENDANCE SPEAK THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE] Bedell: Okay, thank you very much, Dean. Roll call, please. Sisavath: Trustee Lindholm? Trustee Lindholm: Here. Sisavath: Trustee Boyd? Trustee Boyd: Here. Sisavath: Trustee Bedell? Bedell: Here. Sisavath: Trustee Gomez? 1 Gomez: Present. Sisavath: Trustee Williams? Trustee Williams: I’m present. Bedell: Do I have a Motion to Adopt the Agenda for today's meeting? Trustee Boyd: I'll move. Bedell: Moved by Boyd. Gomez: Second. Bedell: Seconded by Gomez. Any discussions or changes to said Agenda? All those in favor, please say “Aye”. [ALL REMAINING BOARD MEMBERS SAY “AYE”] Bedell: Opposed? Five-Zero, passes. Minutes for our meeting of March 14th, 2018. Do I have a Motion to Approve? Lindholm: So moved. Bedell: Moved by Lindholm. Williams: Second. Bedell: Seconded by Williams. Any discussion? All those in favor of the Minutes as submitted, please say “Aye”. [ALL REMAINING BOARD MEMBERS SAY “AYE”] Bedell: Opposed? Passes Five-Zero. We now go to Public Comments. Trustee Boyd, would you please do us the favor and explain to the people who may… this may be their first meeting. Trustee Boyd: Yes. Bedell: How Public Comments work with us? Trustee Boyd: Yes, members of the public may address the Board in any item under our jurisdiction. Each individual is allowed a maximum of three minutes to make their comments. There is a timer. It will start with green, go to yellow when there's one minute remaining and when it gets red, there'll be a buzzer that goes off and you’re allowed to finish your sentence. President Bedell, we have about seventeen… Bedell: This is good. Trustee Boyd: …cards at this point in time, and normally we allocate thirty minutes for Public Comment. How would you like to proceed? Bedell: I would like to proceed as we normally do with you calling the cards, sir. 2 Trustee Boyd: Okay, so we will go through… Bedell: If we run out of time, we’ll ask for consent of the Board for more time. Trustee Boyd: All right. First up is Brenda Lubsack, I believe. I will try not to butcher your names but I've been known to do so. Bedell: Call up the next two. Lebsack: Good morning President Bedell, Dr. Mijares and Members of the Board. My name is Brenda Lebsack and I'm a trustee for the Orange Unified School District and a public school teacher in Santa Unified School District. I come representing myself. Seven months ago I sent a question through Orange Unified School District about AB 329, the California Healthy Youth Act, concerning the no opt-out. Legal Counsel of Orange County Department of Ed emailed back stating, ‘Parents who disagree with instructional materials related to Gender, Gender Identity, Gender Expression and Sexual Orientation, may not excuse their children from this instruction.’ And another email stated that, ‘Forms only allow opt out for Comprehensive Sex Education and HIV Prevention, but not out of Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation Instruction.’ So I looked over the parent permission forms on the Orange County Department of Ed website. Anaheim Union High School District was given as a sample. It lists seven bullet points as content requirements for Comprehensive Sex Ed and HIV Prevention. I called Anaheim Union District and asked the Health Curriculum Specialist if a parent could opt out of any or all of the seven bullet points on the form and she said yes. An e-mail verification of her response can be provided. Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation is bullet point number six. The very District that you are using as an example for Orange County districts is not in compliance with your legal interpretation of AB 329 concerning parental opt out. Why? I have asked many parents to read this parent notification letter and every person including myself, and apparently the Anaheim Union District staff, interpret it in the same way, that all seven bullet points define Comprehensive Sex Health Education and HIV/AIDS Prevention. Even the six- page question / answer document on your website has not one word about there being no opt out for Gender Identity or Sexual Orientation instruction. Districts in Orange County and Statewide are not implementing this law consistently concerning parental opt-out. 3 I can provide samples upon request. Orange County Department of Ed placed Teen Talk on their website as a sample Middle School curriculum that fulfills the requirements of AB 329. Speakers today will give you samples of this curriculum and why they believe parental opt out is appropriate and necessary. Dr. Mijares and Board Trustees, as our elected officials in Orange County, I hope you will hear your constituents today to uphold our most prized American values and that is, parental rights. Thank you. Trustee Boyd: Thank you. Next up is Robert…I believe it's… Hellewell: Hellewell. Trustee Boyd: Hellewell. Thank you very much, and that will be followed by Michelle McNutt. If you could come up, this will move a little bit quicker. Good morning. Hellewell: Good morning President Bedell and Superintendent Mijares, and Members of the Board. I am Robert Hellewell. My basis for speaking is that my wife and I reared our children in Orange County and currently have fourteen grandchildren in Orange County schools. At election time, we host the neighborhood gathering to dis…to discuss candidates. After discussing your names in various elections, it's nice to meet you. I've come to ask for your help. We ask the Board to find and support a Sex Ed curriculum that effectively teaches Sexual Risk Avoidance using best available practices; actually teaches Sexual Risk Reduction rather than whitewashing the risk, and teaches mutual student respect for Gender Variation without interfering or intruding into normal adolescent sexual development. Teen Talk, the curriculum boasted on the Orange County Department of Education website, there's a failsafe to the shared values of most Orange County parents and violates the requirements of the Education Code, including the Healthy Youth Act. Here are two examples. Teen Talk promotes social agenda rather than providing medically accurate facts as required. HIV is a medical tragedy without a cure with thirty-seven thousand, six hundred new U.S. infections in 2016. Teen Talk fails to note that HIV treatment, while extending life, requires a lifetime of antiviral therapy with accumulating long-term consequences. Even when treated, life with HIV is far from normal and should be avoided if possible. Teen Talk whitewashes the truth about HIV/AIDS preserving it can happen to everyone, but fails to provide available medical data on the actual risk and cause it… causative behavior. Example, 4 for the 2016 CDC data, gay and bisexual males are 92% of HIV cases in their age group. Therefore this represents by that data a form of uh anal sex. It is more than one hundred fold greater than conventional forms. Teen Talk falsely suggests that this can be done safely. Next point, Teen Talk is not age appropriate. Session One of Teen Talk introduces seventh graders, some of whom aren't quite over believing in Santa Claus, this actual activities including Masturbation, Oral Sex and Anal Sex; apologize. For a large majority, this is a gross violation of the age appropriate requirement of the law. Rather than protecting children it sexualizes them prematurely and invites experimentation. It also tramples the rights of parents to teach family values about early sexual activity. We ask the Board to provide and support a Sex Education curriculum that effectively teaches Risk Avoidance, affection…factually teaches Sexual Risk Reduction and provides guidance on mutual student respect for Gender Variation. Thank you for your time. Trustee Boyd: Thank you. Miche…Michelle McNutt to be followed by Laura Hayes. McNutt: Hi, my name is Michelle McNutt and I thank you for allowing me to speak today. I am here in support of the California Healthy Youth Act. CHYA, which I will refer to it as, has been stalled largely in part due to a group of parents who either don't understand the laws regarding CHYA or they don't understand the opt-out option.
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