Posted on 12/20/2005 11:19:40 AM PST by JZelle
The chairwoman of a new advisory committee on sex education for Montgomery County public schools said her panel will not hold substantive meetings until school officials devise a curriculum that can be reviewed. The schools "have said what our job is, and that is to advise. Once there is a curriculum, we can do that," said Carol Plotsky, medical staff president at Shady Grove Hospital and advisory committee chairwoman. Dr. Plotsky's 15-member panel was scheduled to meet last night. The school system plans to deliver a new curriculum to the committee in March. Last year, the previous 27-member committee created a sex-education curriculum that a federal judge eventually ruled was biased in favor of homosexuality and discriminated against traditional religious views on the subject. Schools Superintendent Jerry D. Weast scrapped the curriculum and the committee that created it. Mr. Weast has taken charge of creating a new course and forming the new panel. The advisory committee primarily is composed of doctors and representatives of special-interest groups, including a national abortion rights group, a homosexual rights group and a national conservative Christian lobby. Committee member James Kennedy, co-founder of Teachthefacts.org, a local parents group, said he does not think the meetings would be contentious, despite comments he has made on the group's Web log about fellow member Peter Sprigg.
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