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FCPS advisory committee recommends puberty-education videos, flags body-image and phrasing concerns
Summary
The FAME Life Advisory Committee reviewed three puberty-education videos and voted to recommend them to the Frederick County Public Schools Board, while flagging concerns about body-image messaging, age phrasing and wording about reproductive potential that staff and teachers should clarify in lesson plans.
The FAME Life Advisory Committee voted to recommend three puberty-education videos to the Frederick County Public Schools Board of Education after in-person review, but members pressed for clearer language and classroom context to avoid unintended harms. Brian Griffith, the committee’s staff liaison and supervisor of health and physical education for FCPS, told members the videos will be placed in a district repository and formally recommended to the board after committee review.
Members praised the videos’ readability and the plan to chunk them for teacher-led pauses, but several raised substantive concerns about content and imagery. Jen…
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