A little more than two dozen Fairfax County Public Schools students are rallying this week to call for change to school curricula on sex ed after Roe's fall.
, the landmark case that had ensured a constitutional right to abortion for half a century. In a concurring opinion, Justice Clarence Thomas also suggested the court could reverse landmark cases that established the rights to contraception and same-sex marriage., the Fairfax County School Board postponed acting on the recommendations of a committee convened to discuss its sex education program, known as the Family Life Engagement curriculum.
The Fairfax FLE curriculum comprises instruction across grades K-12 on the subjects of “family living and community relationships,” “abstinence education,” “the value of postponing sexual activity,” “the benefits of adoption as a positive choice in the event of an unwanted pregnancy” and “human sexuality and human reproduction,”. Parents are allowed to review the complete curricula for the program and to remove their students from lessons if they so choose.
The report noted that several nearby school districts — including those in Virginia’s Arlington County and Alexandria City, as well as Maryland’s Prince George’s County — offer mostly gender-combined sex ed instruction. The report acknowledged, however, that many other regional districts continue to separate students by gender, including those in Virginia’s Loudoun County, Prince William County, Chesapeake City and Suffolk City. It is unclear what the picture is nationally.
This is atypical for the sex ed curriculum review process, according to Fairfax spokeswoman Moult. In a normal year, the school board votes on the FLE committee’s report and recommendations in June. The delay is “due to the timeline overlapping with the end of the school year and the significance of the changes being proposed,” Moult said.
She’s also deeply concerned by the content of sex education lessons, which she said leave out any useful information about contraception: “In practice, it’s essentially just teachers repeating ‘Abstinence 100! There’s no other option!’ ”
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