613 - Health Education and Human Growth and Development Education

Students in grade levels one through twelve will receive, as part of their health education, instruction about personal health; food and nutrition; environmental health; safety and survival skills; consumer health; family life; human growth and development; substance abuse and non-use, including the effects of alcohol, tobacco, drugs, and poisons on the human body; human sexuality; self-esteem; stress management; interpersonal relationships; emotional and social health; health resources; prevention and control of disease; communicable diseases, including sexually transmitted disease and acquired immune deficiency syndrome; and current health issues.  The purpose of the health education program is to help each student protect, improve, and maintain physical, emotional, and social well-being.

The instruction provided is adapted at each grade level to aid understanding by the students.  Parents who object to health education instruction in human growth and development may file a written request that the student be excused from the instruction.  The written request will include a proposed alternate activity or study acceptable to the Superintendent.  The Superintendent will have the final authority to determine the alternate activity or study.

 

REVIEWED: 11/18/2019 - APPROVED 12/03/2019

REVIEWED: 02/19/2024