The process of selecting a sex ed and health curriculum in NEISD was delayed when the district’s School Health Advisory Committee was disbanded in late 2022 and reconstituted with different members and new rules at the urging of new trustees.
is used by many school districts across Texas and offers a “sexual risk avoidance” approach that promotes delaying sexual activity as the best choice for teens. It also teaches goal-setting, decision-making, healthy relationships, sexual violence prevention, refusal skills and character building. The previous curriculum gave students guidance and information to reduce risks when they do become sexually active, something trustees worried could encourage students to engage in sexual behavior.
NEISD was one of those districts. As a result of the classes being paused, some students have gone without any sexual education, putting them at greater risk for engaging in risky sexual behavior. , which prohibits a governmental entity from entering “into a taxpayer resource transaction with an abortion provider or an affiliate of an abortion provider.”
Trustee Diane Sciba Villarreal said the current curriculum selection process is fraught in part because of false narratives surrounding what teachers are teaching and discussing in the classroom. In the end, Choosing the Best shares the same abstinence-first focus as what was being taught before, an approach that included what former student Hannah Spears called scare tactics to discourage sexual activity.
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