FORT PIERCE — St. Lucie County Schools Superintendent Michael Lannon recommended Tuesday that the school board adopt a proposed sex education curriculum that puts a greater focus on AIDS and begin using it this school year.
His proposal would call for the school board to vote on the issue in December and, if approved, for the curriculum to be taught in schools by January.
Called Get Real About AIDS, the curriculum would be primarily for high school students, but aspects of it could be used in middle school. Lannon's proposal calls for students to begin learning about diseases such as AIDS in seventh grade. Eighth-graders would be the first to learn about condoms.read more
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