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and Jon Heddleston discussed the Family Life Education program. Ms. Williams spoke of the program as presented to K-3 children, starting with kindergartners learning such things as the difference between good and bad touching and the identification of strangers, first grade issues including appropriate responses to feelings, second graders good pe«r behavior and concepts of rrifedia influence, and third girders positive self-image,, human growth, and the .dangers! of household products and drugs.
Molly Bailey described the grade 4-7 curriculum that includes issues such as family living, human sexuality, sexual abstinence, and substance and child abuse. She noted that family life education is integrated with other curricula, and that sexuality subjects are taught to gender-separated classes by same gender teachers.
High school family life edu-' cation, according to Susan Fox, includes subjects such as dating, self-esteem, human development, parenting skills, sexual assault, reproduction, and sexual abstinence and, as in the grade school, much is integrated into other curricula. Jon Heddleston observed that there is much greater acceptance now of abstinence,' and that 70 percent of the students prefer that their parents serve as primary teachers of family life and sexual issues, though only 30 percent do.
Board member Rosa Crocker commented on the age of the family life curriculum (adopted in 1989), and suggested that it be revisited and updated.
The board discussed curriculum review and concluded that Dr. Gangel will start the process by creating a curriculum review committee.
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