Think this is discriminatory? Check out the Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network (GLSEN) website to see how you can help change this policy. Schools boards that decide to include additional HIV/AIDS instruction in sex ed courses must also teach abstinence outside of marriage as the “expected standard for all school-age students while teaching the benefits of monogamous heterosexual marriage.”. Though students are to be taught comprehensive sex ed, abstinence is to be stressed as the only completely effective protection against unplanned pregnancy, sexually transmitted diseases, and HIV/AIDS.
Florida state law requires public schools provide sex ed.