Thu Sep 9, 2021 – 11:01 am EDTThu Sep 9, 2021 – 11:04 am EDT
LA VISTA, Nebraska (LifeSiteNews) — It’s a victory for conservative values in Nebraska.
On September 3, the Nebraska State Board of Education (SBOE) voted 5-1 to indefinitely postpone the development of the Nebraska Department of Education (NDE) Health Standards. After nearly a full hour of discussion among SBOE members, a brief Executive Session held behind closed doors, and several winning votes against amendments, a statement to stop developing the standards was voted into place before the public testimonies began.
The Board’s original agenda was viewed by many as a direct assault on the traditional, conservative values of most Nebraska parents because Draft #1 standards were full of Comprehensive Sexuality Education’s (CSE) sexually explicit content and Critical Race Theory (CRT) components. The CRT components would have allowed public schools to teach that white skinned people are automatically oppressors, and all others are oppressed. CRT is the antithesis of Martin Luther King, Jr’s famous admonition to judge people by their character, not by the color of their skin.
Of the 106 who testified at yesterday’s hearing, 69% opposed the Draft #1 standards, while just 31% expressed support. Many
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