5120

HEALTHFUL LIVING EDUCATION: ENCOURAGING HEALTHY CHOICES

5120

All students must take Healthful Living Education in grades kindergarten through eight and at least once in high school. When offering sex education instruction in grades K-12, the Wake County Public School System staff (employees, agents, contractors, and guest speakers) shall be limited to teaching the State Board of Education Healthful Living Curriculum K-12, following the requirements of G.S. 115C-81 (e1), which teaches that abstinence from sexual activity outside of marriage is the expected standard for all school-age children and that a mutually faithful monogamous heterosexual relationship in the context of marriage is the best lifelong means of avoiding sexually transmitted diseases including HIV/AIDS.

5120.1

All curriculum documents and materials used at a school to teach healthful living education must be available for review. Requests for review will be made through the school’s principal.

5120.2

A parent/legal guardian may request that his/her child be excluded from certain healthful living topics due to religious/personal beliefs by contacting the school principal in writing. These students will be given an alternative healthful living assignment.

5120.3

A Wake County Public School System Health Advisory Council, comprised of representatives in the areas of education, health, medicine, law, religion, media, and business, as well as parents and the community at large, is appointed by the superintendent, and reports to the Wake County Public School System Board of Education. The council prepares and submits recommendations to the board regarding healthful living education policies, general program directions, organization of the health education curriculum, and services.

5120.4

No Wake County Public School System employee shall provide information to any student about where to obtain contraceptives and/or abortion referral services.

5120.5

All WCPSS staff are expected to promote the message that abstinence from sexual activity outside of marriage is the expected standard for all school-age children.

Issued:       April 21, 1997

Revised:      February 11, 2003

Revised:      January 6, 2004