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The phones are quiet at Portland, Maine-area schools with few parents inquiring about the affect of a possible same-sex marriage law, school officials say.
School superintendents don't foresee course content being affected if voters approve the legislation, the Portland Press Herald reported.
Opponents of the measure, which is up for a vote Nov. 3, say it would require schools to teach about same-sex marriage. Proponents, as well as the state's education commissioner, Susan Gendron, deny that. Gendron asked Maine Attorney General Janet Mills for a legal analysis of whether schools would have to change their curricula.
The superintendent of the district that covers Bath, West Bath, Phippsburg, Arrowsic and Woolwich said he had one inquiry from a parent.
"We don't teach hetero marriages, why would I teach gay marriages?" he said.
In Portland, a 10-minute video in the family sexuality class covers families and same-sex families are mentioned, Superintendent Jim Morse said.
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