Legal group claims school district’s ‘graphic’ sex-ed program undermines parental rights
August 13, 2026
The Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) has group sent a letter to a Colorado school district regarding its sex education curriculum and labeling it “graphic” and “ideologically driven.”
The Christian Post reports that the legal nonprofit denounced the 3Rs curriculum in the letter sent Tuesday to the Roaring Fork Schools Board of Education and Roaring Fork Superintendent Anna Cole.
According to ADF, the 3R curriculum, stands for “Rights, Respect, Responsibility,” yet “includes graphic visuals and ideologically driven content” targeting students as young as 5 years old.
ADF also took issue with “Roaring Fork’s failure to provide adequate notice and opt-out rights to parents in violation of their fundamental constitutional rights.”
The letter called on the school district to either drop the 3Rs curriculum altogether or, at the least, “immediately implement an opt-in procedure that ensures parents can exercise their fundamental right to direct the upbringing and education of their children by automatically exempting all children from this explicit content except for those children whose parents choose to opt in.”
According to the Christian Post, the curriculum for kindergarteners features slides of illustrated naked children’s bodies and asks students to identify private parts of male and female bodies.
Second-grade content encourages children to reject the gender binary, while a third-grade assignment encourages the acceptance of same-sex parenting and to draw a “family pride flag.”
The ADF letter states: “Thousands of Roaring Fork parents don’t even know that their children are seeing this content or participating in these activities—and that is by design.”
“Roaring Fork has failed the parents it serves. By design, Roaring Fork implemented a vulgar sexual-education program with ineffective notice and opt-out opportunities for parents,” the letter continued.
The Roaring Fork School Board voted to approve the new health curriculum in May 2023, following nearly two years of research and community and professional feedback.
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