Welcome to the podcast Think Biblically, conversations on faith and culture.

I'm your host Scott Ray, Dean of Faculty and Professor of Christian Ethics at Talbot School Theology at

Biola University.

And I'm your co-host, Sean McDowell, Professor of Christian Apologetics at Talbot School

Theology, Biola University. For our podcast today, we have a conversation between Sean and I about something that has come

into the public schools that has been recently instituted by the California

Department of Education. They are new California health standards that are

going to be applicable throughout the public schools in the state of California.

And so we want to just, we don't have, it's just going to be the two of us today.

We want to talk about what's in these new health standards, why it matters,

why it matters if you're a parent or if you're a student or if you're a teacher. And there's a lot, there's a lot to unpack here.

And so we want to do that in the next few minutes.

It's also available still for comment that you can give to educational officials,

it will not be formally adopted until May of 2019.

So there's still time to have some sort of comment on it.

At least there will be by the time this podcast is first posted.

So the reason, part of the reason we're talking about this is because California typically sets

trends for the rest of the country.

That's right.

And I don't think this area is any different than that.

So Sean, what's the goal for these new standards that will be applied throughout public education in California on health and wellness,

and will also include a lot of things that have to do with sexuality.

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