California Bragging Rights: Getting shit handled

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California Becomes First State To Make Sexual Consent Lessons Mandatory In High Schools Beginning Next Year

California has become the first U.S. state to make lessons on sexual consent a requirement at its high schools. The state was also the first nationwide to require colleges and universities to adopt the affirmative consent policy during

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[moonshaz]

I do (IL), and it's great in a lot of ways, although we're always a few steps behind CA.

Our sex ed policy used to suck, but it's improved in the last few years:

"If a school district chooses to provide sex education courses, curricula is required to be developmentally and age appropriate, medically accurate, evidence-based and complete. Requires comprehensive sex education offered in grades six through 12 to include instruction on both abstinence and contraception for the prevention of pregnancy and STDs. Requires course material and instruction replicate evidence-based programs or substantially incorporate elements of evidence-based programs.

Not that long ago (when my daughter was in school--she graduated in 2003), the standard was abstinence only. I'm really glad those days are over. My only complaint now is that schools are not required to do sex ed at all. If they opt to do it, they have to do it right (see above), but they don't have to do it at all if they don't want to. Afaik, the percentage of schools that offer sex ed is over 90%, but it still bugs me that it isn't mandated.