SAN RAMON — Plans for an April 11-15 “Acceptance Week” program at Windemere Ranch Middle School with a heavy emphasis on lesbian, bisexual, gay and transgender issues will move forward, despite objections from parents who want more focus on other issues that can divide a community — or a school.

After a meeting Friday morning with about a dozen parents who have objected to the LBGTQ-heavy content of the planned Acceptance Week lessons and other activities, a school district spokeswoman said Friday afternoon that Windemere Ranch is going ahead with its planned Acceptance Week activities.

“We will be sending an email to all Windemere Ranch parents (Friday) sharing that we had the meeting and that we will be moving forward with the week and lesson plans as stated in the email sent on March 31,” said San Ramon Valley Unified spokeswoman Elizabeth Graswich. She said Windemere Ranch Principal Dave Bolin will again remind parents their children can opt out of that week’s programs.

The lessons in question were created by Windemere’s leadership students, and approved by Bolin. On Friday, Graswich said district Superintendent Mary Shelton had since reviewed the lessons and the accompanying videos, “and believes that they are focused on education, respect and acceptance.”

Each of the five days of Acceptance Week lessons includes discussion and/or curriculum dealing with LGBTQ. Petition backers say they want that specific discussion largely confined to April 15, the national “Day of Silence” in support of LBGTQ issues. The petition calls for more attention to acceptance of differing religious values, race, culture, socioeconomics and other topics that divide people, and for a student walkout on April 11 “if our demand is ignored and not met.”

The petition calls Windemere’s Acceptance Week curriculum an “extended promotion” of LGBTQ issues, and undermines parental rights and opposing beliefs. More than 530 people — not necessarily all of them Windemere parents — had signed it by Friday afternoon.

Bolin said Thursday that some tweaks have been made to the original curriculum, including some editing of the videos that accompany the lessons, taking parents’ comments into account.

Robyn Barney, the parent of a Windemere seventh-grader, signed the change.org online petition. She also attended Friday’s meeting with Bolin and Shelton, and said everyone was allowed to offer opinions and suggestions.

While insisting she isn’t trying to diminish the importance of tackling LBGTQ-related questions, Barney and others have questioned the age-appropriateness of covering that topic in middle school, and some say it isn’t consistent with their faith. “Most of us felt this subject should be taken up at the high school level, or even college.”

Though she said she appreciated district leaders hearing their concerns Friday, “My gut feeling is that nothing’s really going to change.”

Not everyone supports the petition drive or what it stands for.

“Most families are in full support of the curriculum that has been planned and implemented by the leadership class at Windemere Ranch,” parent Jennifer Ottley told this newspaper in an email. ” I hope the few families that are uncomfortable with the lesson plan do not diminish from the important week that has been planned.”

Judy Gestring and her partner live in San Ramon; their sixth- and eighth-grade daughters attend Gale Ranch Middle School, not far from Windemere Ranch. She said she’s been fighting the school district for years on same-sex-related issues but gives its leaders kudos on their handling of Windemere Ranch’s Acceptance Week plans.

“School is about exposing your children to different viewpoints, because that’s what real life is all about,” she said.

Contact Sam Richards at 925-943-8241. Follow him at Twitter.com/samrichardsWC. Contact Joyce Tsai at 925-945-4764. Follow her at Twitter.com/joycetsainews.