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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For those of you considering lobbying to make changes, you may want to familiarize yourself with the three rationales MSDE used in support of the extra semester of Health:

Rationale:
Recommendations for increased health education
in response to the opioid crisis have resulted in
legislation requiring drug addiction and prevention
programs at the high school level. Additional
recent legislation has also mandated programs in
sexual abuse and assault instruction. In response,
the state has increased the content of its health
standards for high school students and the Task
Force recommends expanding the health
coursework requirement accordingly. (All public
school students are already required to participate
in a comprehensive health education instructional
program that also addresses mental and emotional
health, nutrition and fitness, safety and injury
prevention, personal and consumer health, disease
prevention and control, and human life and
sexuality.)

Rationale:
The Maryland Youth Risk Behavior/Youth Tobacco
survey has shown increasing trends in high school
student engagement in risky behaviors such as
alcohol and drug use, a decline in mental health,
and decreased healthy eating and exercise
practices.

Rationale:
The Maryland State School Health Council and the
Health and Physical Education Advisory Board
documented the need for increased health
coursework to provide sufficient instruction in
sexual abuse, drug prevention, suicide prevention,
and mental health.

[url]https://www.marylandpublicschools.org/stateboard/Documents/2020/1207/SBOE-Presentation-High-School-Graduation-Task-Force.pdf[/url][/quote]

So have these changes reduced the opoid crisis or was it just another bad idea that accomplished nothing?[/quote]

No one has completed the new course yet.[/quote]

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