Exposing Maryland Laws & Frederick County Public School Policies and Curriculum!
Last year, 68.2% of FCPS high school graduates failed their College & Career Readiness tests, yet FCPS graduated these students anyway. Additionally, on last year’s MCAP test, 40% of students failed English Language Arts, 68% failed Math, and 66% of 8th graders failed Science, even though the state lowered the standards of this test by significantly reducing test times and implementing computer adaptive testing. This type of testing provides students with an initial set of questions, and depending on their performance, the difficulty level of the next set of questions is adjusted. Taxpayers paid nearly a billion dollars for this school year and Frederick County Executive Jessica Fitzwater just raised our taxes to go straight towards the school budget, despite these alarming test scores!!
Since 2018, Frederick County Public Schools (FCPS) has integrated Critical Gender Theory into the Family Life Curriculum for middle and high school students. In March 2022, the Frederick County Board of Education (BOE) adopted the Maryland Comprehensive Health Education Framework for elementary schools, which includes Critical Gender Theory, and added a second semester of health to the high school graduation requirements. This health framework is based on the National Sex Education Standards created by activist groups Advocates for Youth, SIECUS, and ANSWER, who are all partners of Planned Parenthood.
FCPS Policy 443 mandates that every student be asked their pronouns, and their pronouns must be used in all interactions. Students may use bathrooms and locker rooms, participate in overnight stays, and join sports teams that align with their gender identity. They can also socially and medically “transition” to the opposite sex at school, and teachers and staff are prohibited from informing parents or guardians.
In 2021, the Department of Justice found FCPS guilty of secluding and restraining 125 students with disabilities a total of 7,253 times over a two-and-a-half-year period; no one was held accountable. Since October 2021, children as young as 12 can receive mental health treatment without parental consent. In March 2020, FCPS partnered with Brook Lane Behavioral Services to provide teachers for Brook Lane’s Partial Hospital Program, where students go for psychiatric treatments during school hours. In September 2024, FCPS partnered with Greenspace Health to launch Basecamp, a digital platform offering students behavioral health support, psychoeducation, preventative resources, bi-weekly mental health check-ins, and self-guided resources that can lead to unregulated chat rooms. Students in 6th grade and higher can sign up for their own accounts without parental consent. Funding for Basecamp comes from the Maryland General Assembly under the Blueprint for Maryland’s Future, formerly known as the Kirwan Commission, which is the state takeover of Maryland schools, removing local control and parental rights. This Blueprint will transform schools into "community schools" with health-based centers that cannot share certain medical information with parents.
Your tax dollars support abortions and contraceptives at the local, state, and federal levels. In Maryland, doctors can determine if a minor is "mature enough" to have an abortion without parental consent. Minors can also consent to birth control and STD testing. Tax dollars also fund gender treatments and surgeries for minors and adults through Medicaid, including puberty blockers, chemical castration, fertility preservation (which cancer patients are denied), plastic surgery, voice lessons, and reversals of these treatments.
FCPS has approved a Planned Parenthood video with advertising for students starting in seventh grade. FCPS nurses are employees of the Frederick County Health Department, which are partners of Planned Parenthood.
FCPS libraries contain obscene and explicit books. Two years ago, 35 of these books were challenged. Despite significant public outcry and a Frederick News Post survey showing 70% of residents disapprove of these books being in schools, Superintendent Dyson approved all but one, which was factually incorrect.
Please VOTE for Write-in Heather Fletcher. Heather’s name is NOT on the ballot, so please remember to write it in! She will prioritize academics, parental rights, fiscal responsibility, and local control! Also, please vote NO on Ballot Question #1 - Right to Reproductive Freedom Amendment, which would make Maryland a “sanctuary state” for gender treatments, surgeries, and abortions for minors and adults at taxpayers’ expense. Early voting is from October 24th to 31st, and Election Day is November 5th.
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