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Fall River board keeps human growth curriculum intact, shifts "healthy living" out of sixth grade
Summary
After more than an hour of public comment and committee review, the Fall River School Board voted to make no material changes to the district's human growth and development curriculum but approved moving "healthy living" lessons out of sixth grade into fifth, seventh and ninth grades.
After extended public comment, the Fall River School Board voted to retain the district's human growth and development curriculum with no material changes while moving the district's ‘‘healthy living''' lessons out of sixth grade into fifth, seventh and ninth grades.
The decision follows a week of petitions and public testimony: multiple speakers told the board a petition asking to dissolve a section of the curriculum had gathered 269 signatures. Parent Cody Ennis said he intended to opt his child out of nurse-related…
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