LAS VEGAS – Parents in Nevada’s Clark County School District could easily come to the conclusion that their district is determined to over-sexualize their children.

The district recently found itself in hot water with parents when it began airing a controversial “comprehensive” sex education program authored by SIECUS that included teaching 5-year-olds about masturbation, among other things.

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Parents were incensed when details were vetted in invitation-only meetings.

Media scrutiny – including from EAGnews and the Drudge Report – set the district on its heels.

“After listening to members of our community over the past few weeks, I believe that our school district has inadvertently broken trust with many of our families and with some members of our Board of Trustees. This happened when we set up a series of invitation-only community forums to start a conversation about what changes, if any, we should make to our sex education curriculum,” superintendent Pat Skorkowsky wrote in a letter to parents.

But now parents say the alternative program proposed by the district is no less controversial.

ABC 13 reports:

Now, the controversy continues to swirl around the SIECUS replacement, bill AB230.

It was shot down in the House and Senate last legislative session but CCSD officials expect it to resurface in the next session, and say they’re trying to preempt mandated changes in the sex education program by creating reforms using the document as a guide now. It has drawn even more dissent from parents. 

“SIECUS is supported by Planned Parenthood. Planned Parenthood openly supported AB230. It is the same. It is a shift to teach sexuality education,” one parent said at a recent school board meeting.

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“Teaching this content provides for the public education system through curriculum to develop my child’s attitudes, values and beliefs about sexuality. That’s not OK with me,” one parent said another, according to Fox 5.

“Parents care and they will not let these concepts be introduced to our children without a fight,” parent Erin Phillips said tells ABC 13.

More than 600 parents have mobilized, forming a group called “Power2Parent” to stay informed.