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Education Law Update - New Requirements for Human Growth and Development Curriculum

School Districts should review their Human Growth and Development curriculum as a result of two recent amendments to sec. 118.019, Wis. Stats., human growth and development instruction. First, if a school board provides instruction in human sexuality, reproduction, family planning, human immunodeficiency virus and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, prenatal development, childbirth, adoption, available prenatal and postnatal support, and male and female responsibility, the school board is now required to ensure that instruction in marriage and parental responsibility is provided in the same course, during the same school year. The second change requires that instruction in any of these subjects must present abstinence from sexual activity as the preferred choice of behavior in relationship to all sexual activity for unmarried students. The instruction must also emphasize that abstinence before marriage is the most effective way to prevent pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases, including HIV and AIDS.

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