I’m trying to keep tabs on tonight’s school board meeting since for the time being we’re without a full-time schools reporter.

I missed the discussion/presentation about Patterson Ranch, but I did catch the vote on appointments to the sometimes contentious Health and Sex Advisory Committee.

I’m not going to pretend to be an expert on this stuff, but I do know that the district has been dinged in the past for failing to meet state standards in sex education.

This commitee makes recommendations on curriculum and materials in Fremont sex ed classes.

The board made 14 appointments. Below is a list of who parents and community members who made the cut:

5 votes
Elizabeth Champion (parent)
Dianne Jones (parent) — She told the board she’s dismayed that her fifth grade daughter learns less about the birds and bees than she did 30 years ago.
Livia Quan (parent)
Kathy Velasco (parent)
Kathleen Walter (Parent)
Anne Damron (community)
Susan O’Neil (community)

Four votes
Kelleen Bush (parent)
Nadine Camara (parent) (one-year)
Catherine Critchfield (parent) (one year)
Catherine Layden (community)

Three votes
Lucienne Bouvier (parent)
Catherine Norman (Community)
Carol Zilli (Community)

I don’t know which committee members are more conservative when it comes to hanky panky.  But I do know that the more conservative board members are Larry Sweeney, Ivy Wu and Lily Mei. They all voted for Zilli and Norman — catapulting them onto the committee.

The two more liberal board members Brian Gephardt and Lara York  voted for Leslie Gupta and Cynthia Fong, but couldn’t get a key third vote for either candidate. Sweeney, Gephardt and York voted for Lucienne Bouvier.