ACTION: Submit Comments on Unconstitutional Heath Standards by May 4th!
— Comment Template Provided
Comment Period Open on Proposed Health Standards ~ Deadline May 4th ~
In July of 2025, I posted alerts about new proposed radical MDE Health Standards.
“Statewide Call to Action re: MN “Health Standards” Which Groom & Indoctrinate Children.”
Since then, the MDE has developed a Draft 3 and held an Administrative Law Hearing. We have one more opportunity to make our voices heard by May 4th!
Here’s a quick overview of just some of the disturbing content from Draft 2:
Third graders will be required to explain the difference between “sex assigned at birth” and “gender identity and expression” (3.4.1.06).
Fourth graders will be required to practice “giving and receiving VERBAL CONSENT with family members, peers, and OTHER ADULTS.” (3.4.4.01) Umm…Why do elementary age children have to practice giving sexual consent to adults!?
Sixth graders will be expected to: “Describe how to communicate consent for all sexual behaviors” (6.4.1.19) and “Demonstrate giving and receiving verbal consent for all sexual behaviors between partners” (6.4.4.04).
Ninth graders will be informed that students have a “right” to “confidential health services” in their state.
According to the 120B.024 benchmark, EVERY child MUST comply with EVERY benchmark! This is a massive violation of our freedom of religion!
This is an attempt by the State to hijack and pervert our children.
By proposing these standards, the State is waging war against truth, nature, biology, and morality, as well as our National and State Constitutions. This is NOT education! This is ideologically driven indoctrination that is a violation of our freedom of religion.
Back in July of 2025, we were to submit comments of concern and request a hearing on the proposal. Together we were successful, and an Administrative Law Hearing did take place on April 13-14.
Now, we have a post-hearing window of opportunity to submit comments until next Monday, May 4th.
Mike McCarthy of Fixing Stillwater Schools has spearheaded the effort to call out the dangers of these standards and to draft a proposed alternative.
Visit McCarthy’s website - www.mnhealthstandards.com - which is a treasure trove of information about the Health Standards!
It including links to Draft 2 and Draft 3, with an explanation of their shifting strategy to obscure the progressive agenda that will be taught. The “Woke Revolution” was overt in Draft 2, but Draft 3 declares that MDE gets to edit or re-write the law after and without rulemaking.
Passing these Health Standards would be akin to writing a blank check for the progressive MDE to require WHATEVER they want to be taught to our children about sexuality!
Watch McCarthy’s testimony, then read his vital update and critical call to action below. Beneath his comments, I have provided a suggested comment template.
The deadline to file additional written comments into the record is May 4th! So please take action today!
Forward this to all parents, educators, and pastors who should be rightfully concerned about the devastating impact these standards will have on all the children of Minnesota if implemented.
From Mike McCarthy: There are two criteria that would give Administrative Law Judge O’Reilly grounds to reject the rulemaking:
Unlawfulness & Unconstitutionality
Thus in your comments, which must be submitted by May 4th, on the proposed Health Standards, please hit on these points!
1) THE RULEMAKING IS UNCONSTITUTIONAL: PARENTS RIGHTS; RELIGIOUS FREEDOMS –
MDE’s July 2025 “Draft 2” of the comments revealed much of their intentions, now hidden. So did the input from the 3 secret consultants mentioned in the SONAR on page 19. (See also Consultant Records extracted via MN Gov. Data Practices Act.) In the Hearing, supporters of the proposed rule all expressed that it would result in specific sexual education outcomes and progressive philosophies being taught that are not presently revealed in the proposed rule. MDE’s own “EDI” section of its website states that its mission is for all Minnesota children to “unlearn” old beliefs and “relearn” the State-approved worldview, culture and beliefs – regularly in opposition to families who are not raising their children in the progressive faith, and/or in the shamanistic worldview of politically favored tribes this rule promotes.
In effect, this rulemaking would require students from families having conservative beliefs to renounce their religions and their parent’s worldview, culture, and beliefs in order to advance to the next grade level and to graduate.
This violates both our rights as parents and the religious freedoms of our families. It is our reasoned expectation that this is a big reason why MDE does not want this initiative seen in public.
It will be helpful to reference “Evidence-Based, Medically Accurate Comments” filed in the record by Kate Harri and Michael McCarthy on April 20, 2026. Significant amicus briefs in litigation elsewhere regarding this are included in Part 3.
2) THE RULEMAKING IS UNLAWFUL –
MDE claims the legislature granted them imperial power to make a rule completely in secret, outside of the rulemaking process. How? Through MN. Stat.120.023 Subd.1(d) which sets the benchmarks outside some of the process. BUT in this rulemaking MDE attempts to move the whole rulemaking substance out of public view via line 2.2 of the proposed rule by saying that everything to be taught will be revealed only after the rulemaking itself. Literally back room deals with the “comprehensive sex ed” folks getting their on-the-record expectations fulfilled. Voters would be kept in the dark until after elections. Parents would be kept in the dark until materials are in their kids’ hands. This is a vast overreach for MDE and we need to call MDE out on this in our comments, in the record, so the ALJ can act based on the record we present. How would SHAPE America and Obama era CDC “comprehensive” sex ed dogma affect YOUR family as a mandate to advance every grade level?
3) PLEASE ASK FOR THESE REMIDIES:
1) Please ask Administrative Law Judge Ann O’Riley to reject MDE’s proposed rulemaking as unlawful and unconstitutional.
In lieu of rejection, ask the ALJ to direct the following 3 items filed in the Feb. 9, 2026 Comments by Michael McCarthy on behalf of FSS): (McCarthy, 2/9/26)
2) Replace the state’s proposed rule with the alternative Pro-Family K-12 Academic Health Curriculum rule on pages 18-19 of M. McCarthy’s Comments of 2/9/26. This plainly says what will be taught (no empty bucket) and stops MDE from making changes later out of public view.
**You can read the Alternative Pro-Family K-12 Academic Health Curriculum proposal HERE!
3) Direct MDE to undertake the fourteen (14) requested rulemaking remedies listed on page 6 of M. McCarthy’s Comments of 2/9/26. MDE procedural failings are described on pages 3-5. (Friends, if these are requested and not undertaken this may provide the basis for future litigation.)
**You can read M. McCarthy’s 2/9/26 comments HERE.
4) Include the recommended “knowledge content” on pages 24-42 of M. McCarthy’s Comments of 2/9/26 for rulemaking standards, strands, and benchmarks, noting MDE’s failure to say what the rule would require to be taught to millions of children, overriding local school district.
FOR HOW TO FILE YOUR COMMENTS, FOLLOW THIS LINK: COMMENTS
Forward together! ~ Michael McCarthy, Chair Fixing Stillwater Schools
Please take time this week to read, share and act!
You can learn more on the Health Standards revisionary process at MDE’s link HERE and read Draft 2 of the proposed Health Standards HERE.
Here’s a Suggested Template to get you started:
Hello, my name is _____________________. I am a concerned parent / grandparent / pastor, etc. I am writing in opposition to the proposed Health Standards because (pick a couple options below or create your own):
They violate students’ and teachers’ first amendment right to freedom of religion.
They violate parental rights and seek to influence vulnerable minors.
They are not founded in the biological reality that there are two sexes: male & female.
They teach children how to consent to ALL sexual behaviors, even with adults, which is pedophilia.
They would give a blank check to the MDE to mandate and teach whatever they want regarding sexuality to all Minnesota’s children.
Therefore, I request that:
1) Administrative Law Judge Ann O’Riley reject MDE’s proposed rulemaking as unlawful and unconstitutional.
2) Replace the state’s proposed rule with the alternative Pro-Family K-12 Academic Health Curriculum rule on pages 18-19 of M. McCarthy’s Comments of 2/9/26.
3) Direct MDE to undertake the fourteen (14) requested rulemaking remedies listed on page 6 of M. McCarthy’s Comments of 2/9/26.
4) Include the recommended “knowledge content” on pages 24-42 of M. McCarthy’s Comments of 2/9/26 for rulemaking standards, strands, and benchmarks.
Thank you for your consideration.
Sincerely,
Your Name
“…But the people who know their God shall stand firm and take action.” Daniel 11:32b
