The Null Curriculum: Sex Education

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The null curriculum is the information which educators intentionally or unintentionally leave out of the prescribed curriculum. Part of the developing curriculum is determining what must be taught, what should be taught and what will be taught. In general the information left out the curriculum is never mentioned. The problem with leaving information out of any curriculum is that students either never get the information or assume that the information is irrelevant or unimportant. A topic of Null Curriculum is sex education, sex education has long been an issue with regard to the degree to which it should be included on the school curriculum, but the newer issues of gender orientation, alternatives lifestyles and alternatives family configuration,

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