A sex education mandate that was floated around the Illinois legislature during the Illinois lame-duck session earlier this month was heavily pushed back against by Illinois school leaders.

On the WHOW Morning Show Wednesday, Blue Ridge School superintendent Dr. Hilary Stanifer told Regional Radio Illinois is not the same state from top-to-bottom and feels it is unreasonable to mandate curriculum on communities downstate with different values than in northeast Illinois.

According to Dr. Stanifer, there are a lot of things in the curriculum that normalizes things the community of Farmer City and surrounding areas would not be in favor of.

Dr. Stanifer says there doesn't seem to be a lot of awareness about the curriculum in the community. She calls it unfortunate because there is a lot of material in it she speculates the community would not want in the classroom and library setting.

The sex-ed curriculum mandate did not make it through the legislature in the lame-duck session earlier this month and there is some question as to the support it would have if it was to be brought back up under the new general assembly.