EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM
Series 600
Policy Title: Health Education
Code No.: 613
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; and communicable diseases. The purpose of the health education program is to help each student protect, improve, and maintain physical, emotional, and social well-being.
The areas stated above are included in health education and the instruction 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 principal shall determine an alternative activity or study for the student. The superintendent and/or designee will have the final authority to determine the alternate activity or study.
Date of Adoption/Review/Revision:
July 2005
June 2008
July 2011
September 2017
October 2022
September 2023
