November 14th 2021 4:00pm
United Parents of South Carolina
United Parents of South Carolina - what we stand for and our updated mission statement.
Meeting Facilitator: Maggie Marlow
Attendees: UPSC members and guests
•Rep. Mark Smith •Jennifer Hankey - Fix Forward •Mary McCullen - Protect Child Health Coalition •Tammy Wright - Heritage Keepers
I. Call to order
II. Pledge of Allegiance
III. Opening Prayer
IV. Moment of Silence for Greg Montieth + Family
V. Announcements:
Please be sure to check your e-mails for the newsletters (it is coming from GBHWellness.com). It will have the meeting minutes as well as a google doc form that will be going out early next week about what issues and concerns we have as constituents for Charleston county specific precincts. The newsletter will also have upcoming events, CTA’s and pertinent forms for schools.
Religious, Medical and Personal Exemptions are still available for masks: If you didn’t obtain the forms they are available at the front for you. There will also be one attached in the newsletter.
VI. Speakers - How we can support our community members, representatives and candidates who align with our mission statement.
Mark Smith
Check out the new district lines and let your Rep. know what your thoughts are.
VoteMarkSmith.com
843-442-8371
marksmith@scgov.com
Don’t give up, don't grow weary and don’t fall victim to focusing on the 10-15% of the items that we do not agree on and lose focus on the mission.
Define the bills and press for them to be pushed…...we need to make sure we vet them and make sure that they are combined in our favor
SC Vaccination Rights Act
Vaccination Rights Act
84567
84556 - Schools
84561 - 1st Responders
84516
84552 - Blocking Colleges
84545 - Public + Private Establishment from requiring vaccines
SC Parents Bill of Rights
Jennifer Hankey + Victor Cossel - Fix Forward
We need a list of candidates for the 2022 Election
843-894-3220 - Text {First + Last Name} to that number
Allows you to get involved
Mary McCullen
Protect Child Health Coalition
For Mothers and Fathers
Started by bringing individuals together who were doing work separatly
I have had concerns about sex-ed for about 25 years
Academics need to be the foundation of the childrens education.
Systematic sexualization of children k-12 is ingrained in our schools and in the media.
Rights-Respect-Responsibility 2017
15 Harmful Elements of this program and it hit all 15 of them
Normalizing sex + porn (sexting) between children
Teaching kids what they can get away with so that they can consent. Children can not consent to sex.
Students are trained to teacher other children about sex - older children teaching younger children
Autonomy
Sexual Right Advocacy Group with-in school
It redefines abstinence - defined at equal to protected sex
Don’t get pregnant and no fluids
Undermines parental rights
Teaches children that if they do not agree with sexual preferences that are taught they are discriminating
SEL
Teachers to believe things that they have been taught
Sexual Agency - proper pronoun use (k-12)
If you are not using the proper pronouns they are being disrespectful
Trusted Websites
Transstudent.org
National Databases - GALE
Provides data to ebscope - the kids are only a few clicks away from pronogrpahy
There are 20 comprehensive sex-ed programs in SC
The children in the state of SC should have access to a quality absence program
Cultrual Responsive Teaching
Tammy Wright - Heritage Keepers
Heritage Keepers
Developed as a means of prevention
The premise is that we want to come from a place of love from every person. Initially piloted in the NAVY
Several third party research studies have shown that the curriculum is effective.
Outside of marriage is not practicing absence.
Help children understand how their behavior could affect their family
Age of consent
Laws protecting minors (minors can not consent to sex)
Human Trafficking - growing
Healthy marraige and the building blocks of a healthy marraige
Princples and parents decide what the children are exposed to
During the Course of the instruction students come up with rebuttals as to why sex before marriage is not cool
How to be a good partner
Create their own personal safe plan
Our teachers have to live it in order to teach it.
Our message applies to everyone. We do not talk about sexuality, just absence.
This program is grant funded and no cost to the district 9 full time teachers
The children are divided by gender and then instructed by a same gender instructor
YOU JUST NEED TO ASK
Health standards are not represented in the law
The teachers are not following health standards and not the law, this is a huge problem. Health Teachers are not allowed to find sex ed material on-line.
Permission forms and orientation is available to the parents
Students are given parent take home sheets
Private schools do not have to follow the law - the law only applies to public schools
Call - to - Action that included:
Law
Money
Provide Public Comment for HAC on December 5th
Stay vigilant and make sure the law is not open to edits
Who is teaching sex-education in the schools and who is approving the curriculums
Comprehensive Health and Education Act - Law 1988
Must stress the importance of abstinence until marriage.
Heritage Keepers Ciriculum
Notice to parents - You have a right to have your children exempted with in this law. Every parent has the right to teach sex at home.
Parents have to make sure the school districts are following the law (see the attached checklist -middle and high school checklist)
Find out what your school is teaching and if they are teaching. If they are teaching the 3R’s then the school is breaking the law.
Health Advisory Committee (HAC) - they want to review all circulums that were approved over 5 years ago
They will sometimes want to change the law.
HAC does not like the word “absence”
Rep. Moore - Wants to remove any mention of "absence" in a bill introduced 2/16/2021
December 2nd 5:30p - Health Advisory Comittee will sometimes go rouge
Heritage Keepers is a curriculum with-in CCSD
They need public comment
CCSD
Middle School - The principles can decide
Baptist hill
Camp RD
JAmes Simmon
Moultrie Middle
High School
Baptist
Burke
Stall
St. John’s
Dorchester 4
CCSD School Board Meeting
Whether or not they will use OSHA to start mandating vaccines on ALL of thier employee instead of education of our children.
Public Comments needed for that and what the role of OSHA actually is for a school
CCSD board member to attend NSBA meeting
9A in the board agenda -
UnitedParentsSC.org
Meeting Minutes, Videos PDF’s - weblinks
VII. Calls - To - Action
Ask teachers for their lesson plans, SC curriculum standard, resources they utilize (including secondary resources), means, method and mode by which they intended to teach the standard.
Critical Race Theory - OPT OUT OF SURVEYS! The surveys for SEL are being funded through the government and your children's information is being sold to them. Go to www.panoramaed.com and research this.
We also need to be researching the books in our school libraries. This site has a list of your library books. Please go and see what is available for your children to read. gofollett.com
School Board - Our voices need to be heard. Continue emailing and asking questions.
a) Asking for information, data, science and videos access to what they reviewed while in closed session meetings to determine their decisions.
b) Provisos Relative to COVID-19 Instructional Processes Passed by SC Legislature 2021-2022 • 1.108 (SDE: Mask Mandate Prohibition) • 1.103 (SDE: Public School Virtual Program Funding) • 1A.69 (SDE-EIA: Digital Learning Plan)
THEY WORK FOR US AS ELECTED OFFICIALS! VIII. Social Media – United Parents of South Carolina FB– Invite only group: must have questions filled out for approval. * We need a media specialist to help with our other forums *
Instagram - see QR code below
Telegram - see QR code below
T-Shirts are for sale at the front - $15 all proceeds go to running United Parents of South Carolina
Media - media statement is prepared and admins will take all questions from media when UPSC is asked for a statement • If you speak to the media personally you are not to use the United Parents name or speak on behalf of our group without permission.
Our website is almost up and running! We are VERY excited to have a place where everyone can go for information!
X. Adjournment
INSTAGRAM: @unitedparentssouthcarolina
TELEGRAM: United Parents of South