While area schools are waiting for guidance on a new sex education law, some residents are asking local schools to opt out of the program. Abigail Savoree told the Seneca High School Board this week, she believes the program being developed will undermine values many parents teach at home. She says it’ll teach about indulging in sex for pleasure but not abstaining from it for responsibility. She and others who spoke to the board believe the program will also confuse children on sexual orientation and promote abortion as an acceptable way out of parenthood.
The law signed in April requires the development of a sex education program that covers sex abuse, consent, sexual orientation and more so kids know that no means no and that they can get help for personal problems. Jeff Wynn told the board, he feels it will lead to the opposite of what’s intended.
Supt. Dan Stecken says Seneca High isn’t deciding anything about the program until the Illinois State Board of Education provides the guidance it’s supposed to later this year.