A Nevada school board's proposed sex education curriculum would
teach students that homosexuality is not an “acceptable lifestyle.”
According to the Las
Vegas Sun, Lyon County's local school board has proposed an
abstinence-based sex education curriculum that aims to strengthen
“traditional values.” A first draft of the board's revised
curriculum also includes the controversial concept of “second
virginity,” the notion that “it's never too late to practice
abstinence.”
It also teaches that “homosexuality shall not be presented as an
acceptable lifestyle” and warns students that “sexual predators
start with pornography.”
A proposed change to the school board's policy instructs teachers
“to provide information of a factual nature” when a student
initiates a discussion on homosexuality. The board's proposed policy
– which is part of a “support of traditional values” amendment
– was criticized as “contradictory” to the proposed curriculum
by Wayne Workman, the district's deputy superintendent and a member
of the sex education advisory committee, though he did not say which
change he supports.
Several Nevada school boards are revisiting their sex education
curricula in the wake of a failed bill that sought to create
statewide standards on the subject.