New School Health Curriculum

new health education curriculum called health smart. the curriculum outlines h-i-v, s-t-d’s, pregnancy, and defines what it means to be gay, lesbian, bi-sexual, transgender, or questioning. one school board member thought those topics were inappropriate for the classroom– 47abc actually spoke with him back in october. however– last night the school board finally came to a unanimous vote– in favor of health smart. dr. louann hudson, indian river school district director of curriculum and construction 2:03 we have had a sex education curriculum covering these topics for many years the difference is we didn’t have a common sense of materials and a common built in sequence in every classroom:15 so i think what this gives us is a very unified approach to the topics that have been covered in our district’s classrooms for many years 2:24 health smart will be used in all of the indian river school district’s high school health classes. they’ll begin training their teachers with the curriculum within the next two weeks. with chances of snow in the forecast — halo