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Hearing set^
for family
life plan
By SHARON KILPATRICK
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
The Family Life Education curriculum is ready for public and School Board consideration after 27 hours of formal meetings and numerous other hours put in by the Community Involvement Team.
So far in Rappahannock, Family Life Education has not met with the resistance it has encountered in other parts of the state. School Superintendent David Gangel attributes this to the way the committee or Community Involvement Team was selected and worked. "Anyone who wanted to be on the committee could be on the committee,” he said. "They just had to show up at the meetings. We had all sorts of philosophical and religious views represented,” he added.
Community Team leader Judy Tole said the committee worked by consensus for the most part. "Whatever could not be done by consensus was done democratically, by vote." she explained. “Everyone had his say. They communicated their feelings, and the majority ruled.
“Each member of the committee probably does not agree with something in the curriculum, but the committee decision is what you see,” she added.
The curriculum itself consists of between 10 and 16 “objectives” to be taught at each . grade level from kindergarten through grade 12. Following each objective is a description of what is to be taught .
Ten strands ran through the original state curriculum that served as the jumping off point for Rappahannock’s proposed curriculum. They were “Family living and community relationships,” “The value of postponing sexual activity until marriage,” "Human sexuality,” “Human reproduction and contraception,” “The etiology, prevention, and effects of sexually transmitted diseases,” “Stress management and resistance to peer pressure,” “Development of positive self concepts and respect for others, including people of other races, religions, or origins,” “Parenting skills,” “Substance abuse,” and “Child abuse.”
When the committee, set to work on the program, it found three more strands emerging. These had been part of the objectives for some of the grades, but Mrs. Tole said the committee saw them as taking on more importance in Rappahannock’s curriculum. These were “Friendship and dating,” “The influence of media, especially television.” and
See FAMILY LIFE, p. 14
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