For several years, they've been training selective teachers and others to implement a model that has not yet been approved or seen public light until this fall. The Ohio Department of Education, with a federal grant from the CDC, has been discretely training selected teachers and health educators throughout the state. The training sessions list sexual behaviors we can't print. Abortion and homosexuality are valid choices for some teens and sex paraphernalia are teaching aides. It includes lessons on how to use all kinds of condoms and a shopping drill to compare prices and labels.
Religion is deemed irrelevant.
There's no pretense of trying to reduce sexual activity among teens. More offensive to me is the arrogant, below-radar manipulation to impose sexual behaviors and attitudes on captive students with no say from their parents. The rest of us wouldn't know until our kids started talking about Woodies. It's common to have dueling sides in sex education debates. The greatest danger with the proposed Ohio model is its absolute claim to authority, to be the only standard for sex education in all schools.