Article: KOOP URGES SCHOOLS TO TEACH PUPILS TO BE ABSTINENT, THEN MONOGAMOUS

SAN FRANCISCO - Surgeon General C. Everett Koop has urged the nation's school board members to adopt a sex education curriculum that teaches students about self-worth, sexual abstinence and "the beauty of faithful, monogamous relationships."

In an address on Saturday to members of the National School Boards Association, Koop also said that school systems have "no scientific or medical reason for isolating persons with the AIDS virus from school." To adopt a policy that prohibits persons with AIDS from school "is not a public health decision," he said.

Koop, who said that acquired immune deficiency syndrome is not transmitted through casual contact, urged school systems to adopt ...

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