Keep sexual materials out of the schools – period.

The Warren County School Board, as with all school boards not only in the Commonwealth but throughout the United States, would not need any standards nor parental discussion if and when ALL sexual materials were removed and kept out of the schools—period.

This entire topic has no place in public or private schools and, until recently, was not a problem for students and their families. Why has it now?

Having the same materials in schools, which would result in severe penalties in the workplace, constituting sexual harassment, should be just as illegal. And any teachers’ unions that condone such adult materials should be prosecuted and sacked for encouraging such materials.

What is the point of allowing such materials in schools?

How does it benefit students, who, for millennia, have gotten this information from parents and families?

There is a place for such materials, referring to the precepts of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. That place is in the world, NOT in public or private schools.

When this material is kept out of the schools, then there is no need for the policy that the local school board and the Virginia Department of Education are considering.

Keep the free flow of information between the schools and parents going—it is vital that schools share the curriculum with parents and maintain dialogue—but without the necessity to discuss sexually explicit materials when they are not part of what students have exposure to in schools.

Arthur Candenquist
Amissville, VA