Family Life Unit Meets With Board

The Board of rfducation met yesterday anemoon during a brief session with the Citizens' Advisory Comniiltee on Family Life and Sex Education. This was the last of seven meetings with the board'? citizens' committees. I Various c.ommittee membersj informed the trustees about the work of the committee in setting up the pilot sex education and fainily living courses which will begin this month at five Ann Arbor elementary schools - Haisley, Lakewood, Lawton, Dicken and Bader. In cooperation with the Staff Committee on Family Life and Sex Education, the committee helped to formúlate the experimental curriculum, has spoken with various Parent-Teacher Organization groups about the new programs, is participating in the in-service training of the teach-j ers f rom the pilot schools, and has planned the Family Life Forum discussion series for adults of the community. Mrs. Joan Thompson, acting co-chairman of the committee, asked that a more specific charge be formulated by thej Board of Education in order to reduce the conflict within the committee as to what the rolel of the committee should be. Mrs. Thompson also recomj mended that a working comj mittee be formed to review tha present experimental curricu-l lum. She said that she believea the curriculum . is "not com-j plete," for it does not sufficently stress the "témale point -of view.' Other members disa-1 greed. The committee made three recommendations to the Board of Education: (1) The Family Life and Sex Education program in the scohols should be continued; (2) The program would be broader in conception and scope, with more emphasis on family living; Í3) A coördinator for the program should be employed on a full-time basis.