The Comprehensive Health Education Curriculum

Health Education Website

Link to Clay County’s Florida Required Instruction Report

Parent Resources for Required Instruction

Florida Statute 1003.42

The Comprehensive Health Education curriculum aligned with Florida Statute 1003.42 (n) is science-based, medically accurate and comprehensive education addressing the concepts of community health; consumer health; environmental health; family life, including an awareness of the benefits of sexual abstinence as the expected standard and the consequences of teenage pregnancy; mental and emotional health; injury prevention and safety; internet safety; nutrition; personal health; prevention and control of disease; and substance use and abuse, including the true effects of all alcohol and narcotics upon the human body and mind. The health education curriculum for grades 7 through 12 includes a teen dating violence and abuse component that includes, but is not limited to, the definition of dating violence and abuse, the warning signs of dating violence and abusive behavior, the characteristics of healthy relationships, measures to prevent and stop dating violence and abuse and community resources available to victims of dating violence and abuse.

The curriculum shall also include information that includes education on reproductive health, HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted infections/diseases. The health education curriculum materials shall at all times reflect current theory, knowledge and practice, and be scientific-based.  The curriculum materials shall be available at each school site.

Any student whose parent makes a written request to the school principal shall be permitted to opt-out from the teaching of reproductive health and any disease including HIV/AIDS, its symptoms, development and treatment.  A student so exempted may not be penalized by reason of that exemption and shall be given alternate assignments during this time.