Much has changed in the last 18 years, including the needs of students, which have changed dramatically.

But the state’s standards for teaching public school students about health topics, including mental and emotional health, safety, balanced eating and physical activity, substance use and misuse, sexual health and personal health and wellness, have remained unchanged since 2007.

As the State Board of Education considers proposed new health standards, what’s not changing —contrary to Kaitlyn Buss’s recent Detroit News column (“State pushes radical sex ed under guise of ‘Health Ed,’” Oct.10) — is transparency about what children are taught, the ability for local schools to decide how and if they want to teach sex education, and the opportunity for parents to opt their children out of sex

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