Sure.

And so we had a 28-point rubric.

We made sure to base how we chose to, like we look at the curriculum based off of national sex education standards, and we did this because New York does not have any standards for us to kind of go by based on when it comes to sex education.

And so we graded them on topics like content coverage, inclusivity, harm reduction, STI prevention, things like that, um, medical accuracy, and we graded them through a one through four in each category.

So if they was a, a one or a two, they could have either, like, not taught the t- the topic at all, or they did it very superficially and not very much in depth.

If they scored higher, a three or four means very comprehensive, provided a lot of information, it was accurate.

And so what we saw were when we- those particular districts got, like, an F or a D or a C or something like that, a lot of them didn't, either did not provide, um, information on maybe particular topics like consent or, um, STI prevention, or they were at, heavily abstinence-focused, or they provided really harmful shame-based, um, messaging and harmful stigmas when it came to their curriculum.

How were you seeing them frame that with students?

The concerns outlined do not accurately reflect the comprehensive health instruction provided to our students." Aliyah, what do you say to schools who disagree with your report?

I mean, what we'll say is that when you request, you know, you go through a FOIL process and you request the sex ed curriculum, um, of school districts, um, we c- sent a very, uh, specific, very long FOIL, like, request telling, like, very specific things that we wanted to, uh, for them to send to us, right? And the truth of the matter is they sent what they sent.

Um, and it's not that I am...

Like, I understand if someone wants to push back and say that that's not what, you know, what, uh, they, they wouldn't characterize what we'd characterize the curriculum as such.

But if you sent us curriculum that is complete- like, is, um, abstinence focused, abstinence central, you're not really sending us anything that, um, is comprehensive in any way, doesn't provide any other subjects, that's what we're going to say.

And also, we reached out to every district that we thought had problematic, um, uh, materials, um, in early, early this year in January, and only a very few reached back out to us, right? And so I feel like if they thought that it was a mischaracterization, then they probably should have reached out to us to tell us, "Hey, we actually don't agree with that characterization." Um, but what, once again, um, what we saw and how we've had, you know, we evaluated it-

What do you think the city does well about sex ed?

So I guess it's, it's two different things, right? So we have, you know, and, and, and I think across the state as well, but we have a lot of community-based organizations, obviously New York, New York City Department of Health, who goes into schools and provides really great comprehensive sex education.