Students in grade levels kindergarten through six (6) shall receive, as part of their health education, instruction about personal health, food and nutrition, environmental health, safety and survival skills, consumer health, family life, substance use and non-use, including the effects of alcohol, tobacco, drugs and poisons on the human body, human sexuality, self-esteem, stress management, and interpersonal relationships, emotional and social health, health resources, prevention and control of disease, and the characteristics of communicable diseases, including acquired immune deficiency syndrome.
While the areas stated above shall be included in health education, the instruction shall be 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 pupil be excused from the instruction. The written request shall include a proposed alternate activity or study acceptable to the administration. The administration shall have the final authority to determine alternate activity or study.
Legal Reference: Iowa Code §§256.1, 279.8, 280.3-.14 (1991).
281 Iowa Admin. Code 12.5(3)(e), .5(4)(e), .5(5)(e).
Cross Reference: 502 Student Rights and Responsibilities
503 Student Discipline
603 Instructional Curriculum
Approved: 4-13-92
Reviewed: 5-13-19
Revised: 4-11-16
