If inflation feels like we’ve returned to the 1970s, the current education culture war more resembles the early 2010s, when arguments over abstinence-only or comprehensive sex education filled op-ed pages. Sex education is once again the issue du jour. Unlike the previous decade, however, this argument centers on gender ideology and sexual expression.
Rather than picking through the most outlandish examples of sex education, it might be helpful to analyze a popular curriculum, observing what the majority of schools endorse, not a fringe few. Positive Prevention Plus, a program that began with federal grants in 2004, grew to one of California’s most popular curricula, and has now spread to “schools and districts around the country,” is such a program.
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