Today in History revisits the September 11, 1978 edition of the Grand Forks Herald and highlights a story about Grand Forks schools teaching traditional sex education because teen pregnancy was remaining steady in Grand Forks schools. Continue reading for more information.

Many lessons in sex have been learned in the back seat of a car parked at the north 40. Or from graffiti on the bathroom wall. Or from discussions in the woodshed.

Those are the usual places where young people learn about sex.

Schools should also be added to that list now. And at the Grand Forks public schools, sex education is taught in a very traditional way.

“In our junior and senior high schools, I would call our approach to sex education very traditional in nature,” said Mark Sanford, assistant superintendent fo

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