Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1913-05-07 | Page 8 | Sex Hygiene Will be Taught School Girls

SEX HYGIENE WILL BE TAUGHT SCHOOL GIRLS Board of Education Sustains Matron Jennings in Her Methods of Work Despite the protests of oC local club club- women who petitioned the tho hoard to eliminate all semblance of or CX education education tion from the public schools tho tue board of oC c education voted unanimously last nl night ht to retain Mrs Martha B. B Jennings Jon Jen as matron In the public schools The vote oto was taken taleen In executive session session ses sos sion slon after Mrs Irs J s had been boon closeted closeted clos clos- dos dos- eted with tho the board members for tor more than titan an hour Several weeks eeles a ago o a n. petition sl signup signel nc 1 b by six ninety local n was presented to th tho board In which emphatic emphatic em em- protest against HOX ex education In the public schools was voiced At t Atthe t the time tho the hoard board took the matter mattel under advisement and later litter issued a statement In n which It was wa declared that tha t the tho protest protect t of oC tho the women was waR not based on the actual facts and that sex education as complained of by them V HS not heln being attempted In the schools