11-year-old girl on sex-ed committee

An 11-year-old girl sits on a school district committee charged with recommending changes to sex education curriculum.

In June the Board of Education of Montgomery County, Md., appointed the seventh-grader to the Citizens Advisory Committee for Family Life and Human Development for a one-year term, reported WMAL Radio. Three other students also were appointed at the same time.

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The station says Russell Henke, the county's coordinator of health education, confirmed the girl's participation in an e-mail.

"This is not the first middle school student to serve on this committee in the committee's 34-year history," Henke wrote.

Steve Fisher, a spokesman for the group Citizens for a Responsible Curriculum, questioned the appointment of the girl, who attends Takoma Park Middle School.

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"Is it really appropriate for someone this young to be sitting on a committee advising on some very adult themes and topics and issues?" he asked.

WMAL reports Fisher's group opposes proposed changes to the sex-ed curriculum, which include the suggestions that homosexuality and "same-gender sex experimentation" are normal. The controversial plan also includes the viewing of a video showing a woman putting a condom on a cucumber.

Henke stressed any student who serves on the committee must first have parental permission.

Responded Fisher: "It is that parent's prerogative, and if the school has the rules and regulations that permit it, and the parent wants that child to [serve on the committee], there's nothing we can say against that. It's just that some of us are concerned about the young age at which these students are exposed to extremely adult themes in sex education."

According to the report, Each student that participates in the more controversial parts of the sex-ed curriculum, which is presented in the eighth and 10th grades, must have parental permission.

In discussing the proposed curriculum, the Citizens for a Responsible Curriculum website states:

"The citizen's advisory committee that was responsible for the proposed change ignored and refused to consider any input, resources or facts related to positions or views that were not fully supportive of a pro-homosexual, lesbian or transgender sexual orientation. Specifically denied were requests by other committee members to include information from ex-gay sources and other academic and scientific reports critical of homosexual activity or which reported the inherent health risks, such as the found by CDC studies."