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IDB - COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH AND PHYSICAL EDUCATION PROGRAM PLAN
Definitions.
1. Alcohol and other drug use education - a planned program of instruction that provides information about the misuse and abuse of alcohol, tobacco, legal and illegal drugs.
2. Disease prevention education – a planned program of instruction that provides information on how to prevent chronic and infectious diseases, including sexually transmitted disease (STD).
3. Sex education/AIDS education – a planned program that shall include instruction relating to the handling of peer pressure, promotion of high self-esteem, local community values, and abstinence from sexual activity as an effective method of preventing acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) and the only sure method of preventing pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases. This instruction shall emphasize abstinence from sexual activity until marriage and fidelity in marriage as important personal goals.
Requirements
1. The Superintendent or designee shall develop and implement an accurate, comprehensive health and physical education program that shall include information and concepts in the following areas.
a. Alcohol and other drug use
b. Disease prevention
c. Environmental health
d. Nutrition
e. Personal health
f. Sex education/AIDS education
g. Safety
h. Mental health
i. Growth and development
j. Consumer health
k. Community health
l. Health careers
m. Family living
n. Motor skills
o. Physical fitness
p. Lifetime sports
q. Outdoor education
2. Each school containing any grade K-5 shall provide a minimum of 90 contact hours of instruction at each grade level K-5 in health and physical education.
3. Each school containing any grade 6-12 shall make available instruction in health and physical education.
4. Each school containing any grade K-12 shall provide alcohol and other drug use education on an annual basis at each grade level.
5. The Superintendent or designee shall develop procedures to allow parents and legal guardians to exercise the option of excluding their child from sex education and AIDS prevention instructional programs.
a. Sex Education and AIDS education shall be a part of a comprehensive health program.
b. Prior to the parent of legal guardian making a choice to allow his or her child or ward to take the specified unit of instruction, he or she shall be told what instruction is to be provided and have the opportunity to review all instructional materials to be used, print and non-print. Any parent or legal guardian of a child to whom a course of study in sex education is to be taught shall have the right to elect, in writing, that such child not receive such course of study.
c. The Superintendent or designee shall appoint a committee to review sex/AIDS education instructional materials and make recommendations concerning age/grade level use. Recommendations made by the committee may be approved, rejected or modified by the Baldwin County Board of Education. The committee shall be composed primarily of non-teaching parents who have children enrolled in the public schools and who represent the diversity of the students enrolled in the schools and augmented by professional educators, health professionals and community representatives. The committee shall also include a male and a female student currently attending the 11th or 12th grade in the public schools.
Cf: IDBA, GDOE 160-4-2-.12, O.C.G.A. § 20-2-142, (c): §20-2-143
Adopted: June 22, 2000
Revised: April 9, 2002
BALDWIN COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION
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