Two school officials have been suspended at a Norfolk, VA elementary school in connection with the distribution of 4-inch-long baby models accompanied by a card describing a child’s growth in the womb. “Some people think that my life began at birth; but my life’s journey began long before I was born,’” states the card distributed with the pink and brown baby figures, which are soft and shaped like a small child curled up asleep. The reverse side of the card describes the first twelve weeks of the baby’s development in the womb.
Parents and other officials at Oakwood Elementary School met for a closed meeting on the matter and were quoted by the Virginian-Pilot expressing disgust at the “human fetus dolls” given to third, fourth, and fifth-grade students, and calling them “entirely inappropriate and unacceptable.” Oakwood spokeswoman Elizabeth Thiel Mather told the paper Thursday that the baby figurines were not authorized by the division as instructional materials.
Board member Kirk Houston Sr. reportedly called the tiny models, “Very life like, and it’s a pro-life tool,” and said that board members were “all pretty dumbfounded” at their distribution. “As a parent, I choose to teach my children about those things later in life,” said one parent. “I did not sign a waiver for my daughter to be given a fetus.” The school official thought to have distributed the figures, who has remained anonymous, was placed on administrative leave Thursday after the Pilot asked about the models. Read full story
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