Posted on 05/24/2005 9:33:32 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
ROCKVILLE, Md. (AP) - Maryland's largest school district is scrapping sex education materials that have come under fire for implying that homosexuality is a biological trait and for demonstrating how to put on a condom.
The Montgomery County school board voted Monday to rethink its curriculum, weeks after a federal lawsuit was filed by two groups who said it did not do enough to stress abstinence or give opposing views on homosexuality.
Gone from the curriculum will be materials that imply homosexuality is a biological trait, excluding viewpoints of those who believe same-sex attraction can be overcome.
Also dropped was a seven-minute video that was to be shown to 10th graders, in which a woman puts a condom on a cucumber to demonstrate its use.
The school system had planned to launch the pilot program for 8th and 10th graders on May 9 but suspended it for the rest of the school year after U.S. District Judge Alexander Williams issued a 10-day restraining order.
It was unclear how the board's action will affect attempts to reach a settlement in the lawsuit brought by Citizens for a Responsible Curriculum and the Virginia-based Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays and Gays.
The district's curriculum will be rewritten by professional educators and consultants, and a 27-member citizens advisory committee will help oversee the process. The board will consider the revisions next school year.
Civilization has been able to propagate for thousands of years without Sex Ed classes. Kids would be better served in more math & science classes.
We should have a federal law banning adults from talking about sex to kids they are not related to. Eliminate all sex ed classes in schools. They didn't achieve their stated goal of lessening STD transmission and reducing teenage pregnancies. They had the opposite effect.
Save the time and money. Teach kids computer science or how to parse a sentence.
Hear, hear, my friend! You stated my thoughts much better than I. Perhaps I spent too much time in sex ed!
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