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Encyclopedic sex education advocates in North Carolina this year plan to spur on the pomp… Eat of Education to broaden the existing shacking up
tutoring curriculum beyond its “abstinence-until-marriage” focus, which mentions contraceptives only to discuss their
downfall rates, the Raleigh News
& Viewer reports. The advocates say that the results of a late state Responsibility of Public Knowledge appraise conducted among parents of North Carolina students show that
parents want more sweeping sexual intercourse education information for their children, according to the News & Onlooker.
The evaluation institute that parents favor expansion of the current maintain sex teaching curriculum to include information in the air
contraceptives and the blocking of sexually transmitted diseases. Parents also favor beginning mating tuition at a younger
age, increasing classroom time spent on gender education and adopting a sex lore curriculum approved by parents and public
fettle officials, not politicians, according to the scan. Current state law requires schools to emphasize abstinence until
marriage but allows schools to subsume other information, such as lessons about the proper use of contraceptives and STD
prevention, if the school holds public hearings on the content. Currently, more than 100 of the state’s 117 school districts
adhere to the state’s abstinence-until-marriage curriculum.

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Melissa Reed, executive
director of NARAL Pro-Choice North Carolina, is heading efforts to
change the state guidelines — most likely without new legislation — in order to provide a comprehensive sex education
curriculum for all state students, the News & Observer reports. Reed also wants to eliminate any “medical
inaccuracies” in the state’s abstinence education information, following a December 2004 congressional report conducted by
the staff of Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) about factual errors in abstinence-based sex education curricula nationwide.
However, Bill Brooks, executive director of the N.C. Family Policy
Council — which in 1995 pressed for the state Legislature’s approval of the statewide abstinence-only curriculum — said
he opposes any effort to broaden the sex education curriculum because a more comprehensive curriculum could send “mixed
signals” to children and provide a “false sense of security that contraception protects” against pregnancy and STDs,
according to the News & Observer (Gardner, Raleigh News & Observer, 2/7).

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