Sex Education in Schools
Is anyone following the state legislation that would change the way our kids are educated at school about sex? Are you for or against the bill?
Here's the first part of the story in today's Fayetteville Observer and on FayObserver.com:
Lawmakers approve comprehensive sex education bill
By Paul Woolverton
Staff writer
RALEIGH - Middle schoolers throughout North Carolina will learn more about preventing pregnancy and avoiding diseases under sex education legislation that will likely become law.
The state House approved the bill 60-55 on Thursday, and Gov. Bev Perdue expects to sign it, a spokeswoman said. The bill previously passed the Senate.
The law will require all of North Carolina's 115 public school districts to add a "comprehensive" sex education program. The sex education will begin in the seventh grade starting in the 2010-11 school year.
Most school districts in North Carolina have only an abstinence-until-marriage curriculum. This teaches that the only certain way to avoid an unwanted pregnancy out of wedlock - or sexually transmitted disease - is to avoid all sex until heterosexual, monogamous marriage.
A few school systems teach abstinence-based comprehensive sex education.
The new comprehensive program is intended to give students more details about contraceptive methods, disease prevention, where to get testing and medical care, and how to avoid sexual assault and abuse.
The law will have schools teach students both the abstinence curriculum and the comprehensive curriculum.
But parents could choose to keep their children out of the comprehensive portion of the classes.
(For the rest of the story, see today's Fayetteville Observer and on FayObserver.com.)
So what do you think?
Mary
Here's the first part of the story in today's Fayetteville Observer and on FayObserver.com:
Lawmakers approve comprehensive sex education bill
By Paul Woolverton
Staff writer
RALEIGH - Middle schoolers throughout North Carolina will learn more about preventing pregnancy and avoiding diseases under sex education legislation that will likely become law.
The state House approved the bill 60-55 on Thursday, and Gov. Bev Perdue expects to sign it, a spokeswoman said. The bill previously passed the Senate.
The law will require all of North Carolina's 115 public school districts to add a "comprehensive" sex education program. The sex education will begin in the seventh grade starting in the 2010-11 school year.
Most school districts in North Carolina have only an abstinence-until-marriage curriculum. This teaches that the only certain way to avoid an unwanted pregnancy out of wedlock - or sexually transmitted disease - is to avoid all sex until heterosexual, monogamous marriage.
A few school systems teach abstinence-based comprehensive sex education.
The new comprehensive program is intended to give students more details about contraceptive methods, disease prevention, where to get testing and medical care, and how to avoid sexual assault and abuse.
The law will have schools teach students both the abstinence curriculum and the comprehensive curriculum.
But parents could choose to keep their children out of the comprehensive portion of the classes.
(For the rest of the story, see today's Fayetteville Observer and on FayObserver.com.)
So what do you think?
Mary
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