How students receive sex ed information is crucial in Texas, where teens continue to get pregnant at one of the highest rates in the country.
remembers feeling embarrassed and uncomfortable as she walked into the unknown atsaid that she would have taken the lessons more seriously if the"included protection for safer sex, LGBTQ+ orientation, and more lessons in consent.
"How do you expect kids to take sex education seriously and with respect, when the curriculum is done so poorly?" Bonnecarrere said."It's hard for others to give respect to a curriculum that doesn't cultivate openness or a sense of diversity." Hebert said her team decided to include scenarios in the district's supplemental sex education material that were inclusive of LGBTQ+ students, but that they are not addressing abortion."We as a team are very thoughtful about making sure that students feel as comfortable as possible when discussing sex," she said,"and we make sure there are things like anonymous question boxes and that lessons are activity- and peer conversation-heavy.
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