SC Board of Education R 43-170: Uniform Procedure for Selection of Reconsideraiton of Instructional Materials
The State Board of Education is considering a rule that states, “Instruction material is not 'age and developmentally appropriate' for any age or age group of children if it includes descriptions or visual depictions of 'sexual conduct.'”
All educational content regarding sexual conduct could be banned under this rule.
The asks
By January 22, 5 pm, submit written comments to the entire SC Board of Education to Lisa Widener, Assistant Director of Governmental Affairs, 1429 Senate Street, Columbia, SC 29201 or by email to sclreg [at] ed.sc.gov.
By February 12, phone or email your representative(s) on the SC Board of Education.
Talking points
Ask the SC State Board of Education to revise its draft regulation to:
- Permit older students access to age-appropriate sexual content for instruction in human biology, sex education, psychology, and literature.
- Allow parents to exclude their own children from content that offends them without denying access for other people’s children.
- Require people who challenge personally offensive materials to make a good-faith effort to resolve the problem via discussion with school staff before filing a formal complaint.
More information
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Additional suggested revision: Include a process to prohibit a single individual from bringing an unreasonable number of challenges, as has happened in some South Carolina school districts. The regulation should limit the number of challenges to instructional materials that can be brought by a single individual and require that the person making the challenge attest to having read the objectionable material in its entirety.
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Section16-15 of the SC Code of Laws (scroll down to section 305)
SC Board of Education
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Group email to all representatives (with email):
You can copy and paste the paragraph below into the “To” field of your email to send a group email. This group does not include the following members who have chosen not to make their email addresses public: Maya Slaughter and Beverly Frierson.
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