By Elizabeth Lowe
Staff writer
Goodrich – Condom demonstrations will be part of the eighth-grade curriculum this year.
Following the second public hearing on sex education, the board of education approved the decision 6-1. Trustee Timothy Zirnhelt alone voted against the curriculum changes.
‘I’m not opposed to sex education at all but I think condom demonstration to eighth graders is too young. I don’t believe it’s the school’s responsibility to do that,? said Zirnhelt. ‘I think we need more parental supervision.?
The Rev. Karl Zeigler, the advisory board’s only clergy member, was one of several speakers in the audience favoring demonstrations, citing an instance of a woman who contracted a sexually transmitted disease years ago that still affects her life. Zeigler also offered to locate additional resources on abstinence, the focus of the sex education curriculum.