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Reading from the board policy 5041 and abbreviating it, we have said for health curriculum or for health education that it is not the piecemeal teaching of scientific facts and risk cautions and stuff. The word piecemeal stands out to something that we gave to the administration back in 2024. It goes on to then quite extensively define the requirements of what not piecemeal is, essentially being very merit-based, evidence-based, and having undergone scientific review, which goes back to my concern that CKLA may have a lot of overlap, but it it lacks that specific ability to demonstrate that it is a merit-based, scientific-based piece of learning literature, at least to my knowledge. That is just not something that it performed in becoming an accredited curriculum. It— you can correct me on that, but It's less that I think you're picking the wrong tool, and it may be more that we need a more intentional dialogue between the way that our standard defines not piecemeal, which I think may actually be a barrier to integration when I prefer integrated curriculum.

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