When it comes to issues of discussing race, sexual education and books in schools, Lockport Township High School District 205 Board candidates differ on how race and sexual education should be addressed and have varying views on what books are appropriate.
As a board member, Tylka-Shaw said her job is not to make curriculum decisions but to work with the superintendent to make sure the curriculum “is heading in a forward direction.”
“If it’s creating division in the schools, there shouldn’t be division. We need to be united,” Boersma said. Tylka-Shaw, who has two sons who will one day attend District 205, said she’d work with the superintendent to address any concerns parents may have about the way sex education is taught. Boniecki-Cooling, who moved to Lockport so her children can attend the district, said there are laws on how sex education has to be taught in Illinois, so if parents have concerns about sex education they should direct them to the legislature.Clausen said who students are sexually attracted to isn’t anyone’s business and shouldn’t be taught at school. Sex education should focus on the biology of procreation removed of political ideology, he said.
“I don’t know what that is or how that works, but at least at the local level we have to protect the children and have age appropriate sections for certain content,” Clausen said. “That doesn’t mean removing the book, it just means protecting the child.”
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