School District Rejects Planned Parenthood Sex Ed
May 25, 2017
A Michigan school district says it will not use a Planned Parenthood sex education program for students after its plan to work with the abortion chain sparked a strong public outcry.The NPR Michigan affiliate reports Saline Area Schools, located south of Ann Arbor, recently asked local residents for their opinions about a proposal to allow Planned Parenthood-trained teens to teach sex education to students at its schools.
This week, school officials said they abandoned the proposal because of the overwhelmingly negative responses they received from the public.
“… it is very apparent that moving forward with any Planned Parenthood connected curriculum, at this time, would be too divisive in the Saline Area Schools, ” Superintendent Steve Laatsch said in a statement.
Laatsch said the feedback came from comment cards, a public hearing, a survey and general comments from people in the community. A meeting to discuss future sex education programs in the school district is scheduled for May 30.
During a public forum earlier this month, high school health teacher Natalie Freeburn explained that the proposal would allow students who complete 50 hours of training with Planned Parenthood to teach their peers one lesson about birth control methods, The Saline Post reports. She said health teachers still would teach the rest of the sex education curriculum.
According to the newspaper, most of the local residents at the meeting were upset that the nation’s largest abortion provider would be teaching their students.
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