Much about sex education has changed since Susan Johnson-Staples taught the subject for Oklahoma City Public Schools in the 1980s.

Back then, Johnson-Staples was a home economics and personal development teacher who discussed the birds and bees with students in great detail.

“We had a longer length of time to talk about relationships, to talk about intimacy, to talk about refusal skills, to talk about the use of contraception,” recalled Johnson-Staples, now the district's director of college and career readiness and guidance services.

“Those were the kinds of things that were discussed, but they were discussed in a very structured, sequential and age-appropriate manner.”