Year: 2018
Resolution Number: 11
Action Taken: Approved
Status: Complete
Author(s): Dana Benyas, Ian Clavel, Victoria Greenstein, Jessica Johns, Grace Mahasi,
Sponsor: Denise Collins, MD
On behalf of: Wayne County Delegation
Committee: E (Science and Education Affairs)
Resolved Section(s):
RESOLVED: That MSMS amend existing policy, œStatement on Sex Education, as follows:The primary responsibility for family life education is in the home. At local option and discretion there should be complementary family life and sex education programs in the schools at all levels. Public schools should be required to teach medically accurate, age appropriate, comprehensive sex education at all school levels with the option for parental opt out. Sex education Such programs should 1) be part of an overall health education program; 2) be presented in a manner commensurate with the maturation level of the students; 3) have professionally developed curricula; 4) include ample involvement of opportunities to involve parents and other concerned members of the community; and 5) utilize classroom teachers and other professionals who have shown an aptitude for working with young people and who have received special training; and be it furtherRESOLVED: That MSMS advocate for public schools to offer medically accurate, age appropriate, comprehensive sex education in accordance with the American Medical Association™s policies H-170.962 and H-170.968.
RESOLVED: That MSMS amend existing policy, œStatement on Sex Education, as follows:The primary responsibility for family life education is in the home. At local option and discretion there should be complementary family life and sex education programs in the schools at all levels. Public schools should be required to teach medically accurate, age appropriate, comprehensive sex education at all school levels with the option for parental opt out. Sex education Such programs should 1) be part of an overall health education program; 2) be presented in a manner commensurate with the maturation level of the students; 3) have professionally developed curricula; 4) include ample involvement of opportunities to involve parents and other concerned members of the community; and 5) utilize classroom teachers and other professionals who have shown an aptitude for working with young people and who have received special training; and be it furtherRESOLVED: That MSMS advocate for public schools to offer medically accurate, age appropriate, comprehensive sex education in accordance with the American Medical Association™s policies H-170.962 and H-170.968.
Fiscal Note: NULL
Resolution: View PDF for Medically Accurate Comprehensive Sex Education in Michigan
For More Information, Contact:
Christin Nohner
, Director, State and Federal Government Relations
Government Relations
517-336-5737
cnohner@msms.org