It didn't make it out of the most recent lame-duck session in Springfield before the new General Assembly was sworn in, but some Illinois school leaders are still concerned over a mandate that may be coming soon regarding sex education in schools.

Dr. Lisa Taylor is the Superintendent of Heyworth Schools and explains this is a curriculum most Illinois districts rejected when it was adopted as the national standard but was not a mandate on schools. 

The curriculum is regarded by many as very graphic and has been under intense scrutiny in districts across the nation. Dr. Taylor indicates the standard blurs the lines of intruding on a parent's responsibility for their child but also makes topics a one-size-fits-all and that can't be the approach for the topic of sex education.

As students get older, the topics become intensely more graphic and Dr. Taylor again calls into question the role that a school should have in discussing topics like anal sex, oral sex, and masturbation with kids that may be mature enough for the conversation. 

Dr. Taylor calls it 'mind-boggling' this is the focus of Illinois lawmakers when there are compounded learning issues from northeast Illinois to southwest Illinois and many places in between on top of things like the staffing challenges facing schools.