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Medical professionals, parents and students urge board to retain comprehensive health education
Summary
Scores of public commenters — parents, doctors, teachers and students — urged the board to keep medically accurate, comprehensive health education and to resist proposals to restrict or make it opt-in.
During an extended public-comment period at the March 4 Duval County School Board meeting, dozens of parents, students, teachers and medical professionals urged the board to maintain comprehensive, evidence-based health education and opposed proposals to reduce required instruction or make parts of it opt-in.
Speakers included emergency medicine physician Heidi Ashbaugh, labor-and-delivery nurse Karen Lee Duffel, high-school and…
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