Duval County’s school district will develop its own sex-education material to satisfy state laws controlling instruction on HIV/AIDS and issues surrounding sexuality.
Duval County’s school district will develop its own sex-education material to satisfy state laws controlling instruction on HIV/AIDS and issues surrounding sexuality, Superintendentplan for “comprehensive health education”The school system has used the same sex-education curriculum for nine years but, without speaking in specifics, Greene told the board she’d concluded it doesn’t meet some state standards.
Supporters and critics of the established curriculum dominated about 75 people who shared their views during hours of public comment.Monday said that state law requires use of state-approved texts for health education, but that those texts don’t address everything state law requires in health instruction.
After Greene said the subject had “stirred emotion” in the public, board member Elizabeth Andersen said she was concerned “we are reacting … instead of looking at what is good for children” by withdrawing the curriculum on short notice. Last year's Duval County Youth Risk Behavior Survey found that 11.3 percent of middle school students and 32.5 percent of high school students reported having ever had sexual intercourse, with 23.5 percent saying they were currently sexually active, the school district reported.
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