Public Health Service labeled it as an “urgent need” and, even then, it was not until 1953 when the American School Health Association started a nationwide program focused on family life education. Similarly, it was not until the mid-1980’s when the AIDS outbreak urged U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop to issue a report for comprehensive sex education to be taught within public schools as early as the third grade (Pardini). However, Koop’s report did not force or even issue a nationwide requirement for a comprehensive sex education course to be taught, and public schools within the United States can choose between comprehensive sex programs, abstinence-only programs such as WAIT, abstinence-centered programs, and abstinence-strong program and when these program can begin being
Public Health Service labeled it as an “urgent need” and, even then, it was not until 1953 when the American School Health Association started a nationwide program focused on family life education. Similarly, it was not until the mid-1980’s when the AIDS outbreak urged U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop to issue a report for comprehensive sex education to be taught within public schools as early as the third grade (Pardini). However, Koop’s report did not force or even issue a nationwide requirement for a comprehensive sex education course to be taught, and public schools within the United States can choose between comprehensive sex programs, abstinence-only programs such as WAIT, abstinence-centered programs, and abstinence-strong program and when these program can begin being