(1) The Department of Education shall prepare and make available to the educational community a comprehensive educational program affecting appropriate parts of the curriculum, to:
(a) Improve dispute and conflict resolution skills and encourage creative problem solving;
(b) Provide understanding of other cultures and the roots and nature of conflict between cultures;
(c) Communicate insight into how attitudes are formed and decisions are made; and
(d) Present to students, as is appropriate to their ages, a balanced discussion of the following topics:
(A) The history of the arms race;
(B) The short, intermediate and long-term dangers of the use of modern weapons of mass destruction;
(C) The changing nature of armed conflict; and
(D) The effect of the arms race on national and local economies.
(2) A school district may adopt or modify and implement the educational program described in subsection (1) of this section at the district’s discretion. [1987 c.417 §§1,2; 1993 c.45 §79; 1995 c.79 §182]
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