Sponsored by:
Senator SHIRLEY K. TURNER
District 15 (Mercer)
SYNOPSIS
Requires public school districts to include instruction on the dangers of distributing sexually explicit images through electronic means as part of the Core Curriculum Content Standards in Comprehensive Health and Physical Education.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As introduced.
An Act concerning the public school curriculum and supplementing chapter 35 of Title 18A of the New Jersey Statutes.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. A board of education shall include instruction on the dangers of distributing sexually explicit images through electronic means in an appropriate place in the curriculum of middle school and high school as part of the Core Curriculum Content Standards in Comprehensive Health and Physical Education. The Comprehensive Health and Physical Education curriculum framework developed by the Department of Education shall include age-appropriate sample learning activities and resources designed to promote awareness of the dangers of distributing sexually explicit images through electronic means.
2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall first apply to the 2011-2012 school year.
STATEMENT
This bill requires a board of education to include instruction on the dangers of distributing sexually explicit images through electronic means, a practice commonly referred to as “sexting,” in an appropriate place in the curriculum of middle school and high school as part of the Core Curriculum Content Standards in Comprehensive Health and Physical Education. The Comprehensive Health and Physical Education curriculum framework developed by the Department of Education must include age-appropriate sample learning activities and resources designed to promote awareness of the dangers of distributing sexually explicit images through electronic means.