For Haines High School students, sex education will be more than just learning to say no.
In an eight-minute-long special meeting Tuesday, the Haines school board unanimously approved additional sex education materials that will go beyond abstinence and include birth control and gender identity.
At the Nov. 1 meeting, board members said they didn’t think the abstinence-only teachings included in the health textbook were enough to adequately cover the topic.
Health teacher Mark Fontenot, who gained…