Families & Stakeholders

ATTENTION: Fayette County's Materials Adoption Process is currently paused for the current school year. Due to the Covid-19 Pandemic, we are unable to resume our regularly scheduled meetings. We will update the community as we get additional information.

As the adoption process continues additional information and minutes will be posted here.

Please reference the "Adoption Committee" tab to access meeting agendas.

Meeting Minutes and Board Updates

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

• Where can I find the most up-to-date and accurate information about Fayette County’s Health and Physical Education (HPE) Adoption process?
  • Please visit our HPE Adoption website here: http://bit.ly/FayetteHPEAdoption

• Does the Fayette County Public School System teach “Comprehensive Sexual Education (CSE)” curriculum?
  • Fayette County does NOT teach CSE. Educators are required to teach the Georgia Standards for Health and Physical Education. The Georgia Department of Education (GaDOE) Physical Education Standards were released on May 3, 2018, and you can find them here. The new Health standards have been proposed to the State Board, and you can find them here.
  • In addition to Health and PE Standards, we also follow state rule 160-4-2-.12 COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH AND PHYSICAL EDUCATION PROGRAM PLAN​. Within this law, we are to cover the following topics:
    1. Alcohol and other drug use
    2. Disease prevention
    3. Environmental health
    4. Nutrition
    5. Personal health
    6. Sex education/AIDS education
    7. Safety
    8. Mental health
    9. Growth and development
    10. Consumer health
    11. Community health
    12. Health careers
    13. Family living
    14. Motor skills
    15. Physical fitness
    16. Lifetime sports
    17. Outdoor education
    18. Fitness assessment

• Are books sponsored by Planned Parenthood being considered for adoption?
  • Recently, we’ve received several emails stating that the ETR Healthsmart textbook was associated with Planned Parenthood. We emailed the vendor and they’ve confirmed that their text is NOT associated with Planned Parenthood. Specifically, they’ve stated the following:
    1. * ETR is an independent nonprofit research and evaluation agency.
    2. * ETR has never been a department within or owned by any other organization. They are not now, nor have they ever been a part of Planned Parenthood OR any other organization.
    3. * ETR is the largest recognized producer of evidence-based curriculum interventions in the country today.
    4. * ETR produces and publishes its own programs as well as distributes curriculum and resources from other organizations that have shown effectiveness, are evidence-based, and evidence-informed.
    5. * In amongst all of its programs and resources, ETR does distribute one evidence-based curriculum called Get Real, which is written by a Planned Parenthood affiliate. This has no affiliation to HealthSmart, nor is it part of HealthSmart.

• Which books are currently being reviewed by the committee members?
  • The HPE Committee is currently reviewing books from 6 vendors (see the table below for the vendor's information and product name). All of the vendors except for ETR Healthsmart and US Games/OPEN have print copies of their textbooks. Some of the vendors sell their textbooks with and without ancillary workbooks. For example, Savvas Learning Company LLC will sell its Health Textbook titled “Health” with and without the ancillary workbook titled “Human Sexuality.” It is up to the HPE committee to determine which books and ancillary workbooks meet the needs of our standards and community.

• What is the district’s position on abstinence?
  • Fayette County Public School System’s health curriculum has and will continue to emphasize that abstinence is the only truly safe measure that students can use to protect themselves from unwanted pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases.

Vendor Sample Materials For Consideration