“Since sex education has never been a top priority for most school districts, when schools moved online sex ed.
“I don’t think schools have done a particularly great job during the pandemic with sex education,” said Eva Goldfarb, a Montclair State University professor in public health and sex education, who co-wrote the standards. But students learning in the coronavirus era might not be getting the benefit of updated lessons, educators said. The National Sex Education Standards were revised in March 2020 to include grade 10 (The original covered only grades 2, 5, 8, and 12), and add new focus on trauma-informed instruction, and topics covering consent, relationship violence, and gender identity.