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The first decade of the AIDS epidemic in Washington was a time of intense debate, uncertainty, and social change. Initially most cases and resources were focused within King County, where the state's first recorded case was reported in Seattle in AIDS wasn't identified in Snohomish County untiland the county continued to trail slowly but inexorably behind the curve in case numbers.

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Efforts to educate the public and put preventative measures in place were generally considered to be successful, but Snohomish County consistently lacked sufficient resources to provide medical care and home care for AIDS patients. By96 county residents had been diagnosed with AIDS, and most of them had died. In bar one PTA member expressed his concerns: "But to say there is no evidence does not satisfy the burden of proof At the gay only a handful of districts in the region had formally addressed the issue.

Everett and Edmonds expected to have their policies in draft form within the coming months. The focus of these procedures would be on providing a safe, appropriate, and confidential environment for the student to learn; it was stressed that due to the way that AIDS was transmitted there was a low risk that these procedures would be implemented.

In July the Snohomish School District opted to build into existing communicable disease policies rather than adopting a bar AIDS policy because it viewed such a step as being too controversial. Early in the epidemic there was no everett to teach about AIDS in the classroom. From a school perspective, it was a nightmare cocktail of taboo subjects, combining sex, sexuality, and death.

A deadly pandemic complicated by personal feelings about morality when sticking to science and facts could save lives. Mainger was spurred to action through personal experience; his father had received AIDS-contaminated blood in a transfusion shortly before dying from his original ailments.

His method of choice for teaching was to show the Red Cross film titled Beyond Fearwhich discussed community reactions to AIDS, its effects on public policy, the insurance industry, individual patients, and their families. In Mukilteo and Everett districts the topic was only discussed when students or teachers raised it and was not part of any coordinated curriculum.

In Edmonds and Northshore school officials encouraged health teachers to discuss AIDS with their students but there was no set policy. No longer was there a question of whether AIDS should be discussed, but rather at what age the discussion should begin, who should be leading it, and what all should be included.

One biology teacher at Mukilteo School District lamented that she could talk about what she knew about the nature of the disease, how it spread, and how the illness itself manifested, but that she could not mention contraception; that would be something for the health teacher to cover.

Mukilteo curriculum director Dr. Experts now believed that 21 percent of AIDS cases affected those between the ages of 20 and With a five-to-seven-year incubation period, that meant that behaviors leading to the spread of AIDS were occurring at ages 17 to From the parental side of the debate, some were concerned there was not everett conversation about abstinence.

Some wished that curriculum had begun years ago. Some believed that the contagious nature of AIDS was being understated. Some were worried that the educational materials were going to be more graphic in nature but were relieved to see they were not. Most proposed policies gay discussed had a provision that any parent wanting to opt out needed to first review the course materials before removing their child.

AIDS education for grades was made mandatory and advised that it should be made available in colleges and trade schools.