The Matanuska-Susitna Borough School District will require written parental permission for any student taking sexual education or wanting to change their names or pronouns at school.
written parental permission “before the name or pronoun that does not conform to the child’s biological sex used by a public school to address or refer to the parent’s child in person, on school identification, or in school records is changed.”parents be notified at least two weeks “before any activity, class, or program that includes content involving gender identity, human reproduction, or sexual matter is provided to a child” and provide written permission for participation.
The school board must also approve any “curriculum, literature, or materials related to sex education, human reproduction education, or human sexuality education” under the new policy. The board vote was made with no discussion except for comments from the only member to vote against it.Ted Swanson, an electrician who served in the U.S. Marine Corps, told the board he supports both students and parents but “there is no age limit” to protecting the rights of an individual.
“I didn’t take an oath to defend the Constitution of the United States of America, serve in the military for five years, to sit on ... a local governing board limit the First Amendment rights, the Bill of Rights, the constitutional rights of any individual,” Swanson said just before the vote. “I support librarians, I support school counselors, I support educators, I support students.”Several of the policies adopted Wednesday parallel those proposed by Gov.
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