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In compliance with the regulations of the Commissioner of Education, the District will provide age appropriate classroom instruction concerning Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) as part of a sequential and comprehensive health program for all students, K-12. Instruction will be provided during regularly scheduled classes, and shall include the following information:

1. the nature of the disease;

2. methods of transmission of the disease; and

3. methods of prevention of the disease stressing abstinence as the most effective and appropriate protection against AIDS.

A student shall be excused from that segment of AIDS instruction regarding methods of prevention of the disease if his/her parent/guardian files a request with the Superintendent. The request must give assurance that such instruction will be given at home.

Cross-ref:

0150, HIV/AIDS

1210, Advisory Committees

Ref:

Education Law §3204(5)

8 NYCRR §135.3 (Health Education incl. AIDS instruction)

Ware v. Valley Stream High School District, 75 NY2d 114 (1989)

New York State School Boards Association v. Sobol, 168 AD2d 188 (1991)

Matter of Knowledge, 32 EDR 451 (1993) (function of advisory councils)

Adoption date: December 1, 1995

Amended date: December 21, 2009

Amended date: March 4, 2019