Board OKs middle school sex ed curriculum
School Board members tonight approved new learning goals and a textbook for the district's middle school human growth and development curriculum, which includes sexual education lessons.
The textbook, called Holt Decisions for Health, and a few supplementary materials will cost the district $25,000. The new material is expected to be put to use beginning with the 2010-11 school year.
The curriculum likely will be taught as a nine-week elective at each middle school grade level, though exactly when that will occur and who will do the teaching are still to be determined, said Eileen Depka, assistant superintendent for educational services.
The Holt curriculum was the closest match to the district's proposed learning goals of six prepackaged curricula reviewed by a district team, administrators said.
Board approval came after a review of the proposed textbook, called Holt Decisions for Health, by several committees and interested parents and staff members last month. Tonight's vote represented the first official approval in the curriculum review process that began more than two years ago.
Now, work will begin to update the human growth and development curriculum at the elementary and high school levels.
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