GET ME REWRITE: Major outbreak of pearl-clutching over sex education in Florida

 

Headline:  Popular Information, 12/10/2024

A new middle school sex education curriculum in Orange County, Florida, obtained by Popular Information, eliminates previous lessons on the reproductive system, contraception, and consent. What remains is a discussion of the benefits of abstinence and a cursory review of various sexually transmitted diseases. 

Orange County's new curriculum, provided to Popular Information by the Florida Freedom to Read Project, was recently approved by the Florida Department of Education. That approval was required as part of a law, HB 1069, signed by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) in May 2023. The law requires schools to “teach abstinence from sexual activity outside of marriage as the expected standard for all school-age students.”

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