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From the second paragraph on p.20 of the Vermont State Board of Education’s proposed revised Education Quality Standards… “Health services, including health appraisal and counseling, communicable disease control, mental health, emergency and first aid care, and access to professional counseling on gender identity and gender transition shall be made available in a confidential manner to students in each school.”

– For a critique, read John Klar’s “Public Schools’ Gender ID, Transition Counseling ‘confidential’ Draft Regs Say

Essential Topics in Sexual Health Education

– For a critique of this document, read John Klar’s “Another look at Vermont’s ‘Essential Topics in Sexual Health Education’

VSBA/VSA/VPA Sep 2021 Statement on Critical Race Theory

AOE 2018 Education Guide for LGBTQ+I Sex Education

AOE Best Practices for Transgender and Gender-Nonconforming Students

Vermont State Board of Education: Education Quality Standards

– For an alternative set of quality standards, see the Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism’s “K-12 Pro-Human Learning Standards”

– For a critique of “global citizenship,” which EQS 2120.5 encourages, read James Lindsay’s “Global Citizen”

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