Texas got a sex ed update, but students and educators say there's still a lot missing

J.R. Chester, an advocate with the Texas Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy, says she hopes the state's updated sex education curriculum will lead to more open conversation between parents and kids. (Keren Carrión/KERA)

Cali Byrd is a junior at Booker T. Washington High School in Dallas. She remembers when a group came to talk to her class about sexually transmitted infections in eighth grade.

The talk involved a bunch of tennis balls with the names of STIs written on them.