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Board hears update on CDE-driven health curriculum revisions amid parental concerns; special meeting set to meet Jan. 31 deadline
Summary
District staff presented CDE-required revisions to two health lessons, teachers and parents gave mixed feedback — some supporting the changes, others saying engagement was rushed — and the board agreed to schedule a special meeting to vote before a Jan. 31 compliance deadline (or sooner if CDE grants an extension).
Karen Menshue, a district staff presenter, told the Cajon Valley Union Board of Trustees that a January 23 committee meeting finalized revisions to two health-education lessons after the district received CDE (California Department of Education) correction requests. Menshue said committee members reviewed slides showing the district’s spring 2024 version, CDE-recommended edits and the committee’s suggested adjustments; she described the committee’s focus as the decision-making/body-image lesson and the healthy-relationships lesson.
Menshue summarized the committee’s edits: replacing a usage of the word “queer” with “asexual” in a ‘know your terms’ slide, adding a student-facing definition of gender, adjusting visuals to clothed figures, narrowing student directions so pupils select one personal identification rather than discussing all examples, converting a list of harmful stereotypes into a student…
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