Comprehensive Health Education Curriculum

Seminole County Public Schools

Pursuant to State Law, the School Board shall provide an evidence-based, medically-accurate comprehensive health education curriculum that addresses 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 for one's life, health, and development; mental and emotional health; injury prevention and safety; nutrition; personal health; prevention and control of disease; substance use and abuse; and teen dating violence and abuse.

The Board requires that this curriculum also include an evidence-based, medically-accurate, age-appropriate, and comprehensive reproductive and sexual health curriculum. This curriculum shall include information about:

A. abstinence as the only certain way to avoid pregnancy or sexually transmitted infections, including HIV/AIDS;

B. the consequences of teenage pregnancy;

C. the health benefits and side effects of contraception and condoms;

D. responsible decision-making, communication, and relationship skills; and

E. the importance of family-child communication.

Florida statute 1003.42 specifies that all instructional materials used to teach reproductive health or any disease, including HIV/AIDS, its symptoms, development, and treatment, must be annually approved by a district school board in an open, noticed public meeting. Additionally, each school district must include a link for a student's parent to access and review the instructional materials, as defined in s. 1006.29(2), used to teach the curriculum.

Any student whose parent/guardian presents a written request to the principal shall be exempted from instruction on reproductive health or any disease, including HIV/AIDS, its symptoms, development and treatment. A student so exempted shall not be penalized by reason of the exemption. The exemption must be requested annually.

Parents: To view the required and supplemental K-12 health education lessons, please log into your Skyward Family Access account. Once logged in, you should select "Online Forms" from the navigation and select "Fill Out Form" under Health Education Parent Review as shown in the image below. If you have trouble accessing your Skyward Family account or do not yet have an account, or if you have questions about the curriculum or opt-out process, please contact the front office of your student's school.

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