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Kansas Lawmakers Consider Changes to Sex Education

By John Richard Schrock
Published February 27, 2015 at 6:15 AM CST
The teaching of sex education in public schools has become a target for some state lawmakers, who are seeking big changes.
The teaching of sex education in public schools has become a target for some state lawmakers, who are seeking big changes.

Kansas lawmakers are proposing big changes to sexual education in public schools. Commentator John "Richard" Schrock says the most recent proposals are similar to previous efforts at the Kansas Statehouse to curtail the teaching of sex ed in the classroom.

Commentator John Richard Schrock is the Director of Biology Education at Emporia State University. Among other things, Professor Schrock trains biology teachers on how to teach sex education. A postscript to this commentary: Kansas Senate Bill 56 - which removes the K-12 teacher exemption for obscenity - was passed by the Kansas Senate on Wednesday, without any debate.
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John Richard Schrock
Schrock attended Indiana State University in Terre Haute, where tuition was $8 a semester hour in 1964, completing a bachelor's degree in biology teaching and a master's in science education. He began teaching in Kentucky before he graduated from I.S.U., and completed his degrees during summers. Schrock taught five years in Alexandria, Kentucky middle and high schools and two years at the I.S.U. Laboratory School before going overseas to teach at Hong Kong International School for three years. Schrock completed his Ph.D. in entomology working on insect ecology and systematics at the University of Kansas and, upon graduation, worked for the Association of Systematics Collections for three years. When the A.S.C. moved to Washington, DC, Schrock took the position at Emporia State University, directing biology teacher training. He was on the state biology committee and closely involved in the Kansas evolution debates of 1999. He writes a weekly Kansas newspaper column on education, produces public radio commentaries, and appears monthly on Kansas television.
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