Archbishop Flynn decided 18 months ago to delay the program to review more educational material and offer parents information and supplemental materials about the "safe-environment" curriculum, McGrath said. Since then, many parents have questioned or criticized the program.
"Too many people mistakenly thought this will be sex education, and it's not," McGrath said. Others incorrectly feared that it would be the same as one required last year for all 11,000 archdiocese, parish and school employees and volunteers.
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The new program will have three courses to teach children about appropriate touch, healthy relationships and other topics. Each course will be pegged to different grade levels. Parents may choose instead to attend a family course or substitute one of several home-taught abuse-prevention courses, officials said.
Catholics were warned last month in the archdiocese newspaper, "The Catholic Spirit", that Thursday's report would show the archdiocese out of compliance with the policy. From the StarTribune
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