Family Life Education

(SB 352)

Each school year, your child is scheduled to receive family life education as part of Emanuel County Schools’ overall health education curriculum. We are committed to an abstinence-based curriculum which focuses on teaching students to set goals, understand boundaries, and keep themselves safe, online and in person. Classes will be single-gender (boys with a male instructor and girls with a female instructor) and will be taught either first or second semester depending on the specific schedule of your child’s school. All grade levels will participate in a pre and post survey designed to assist with the continued improvement of our curriculum and instruction. Topics covered in the Family Life Education curriculum differ based on the appropriateness for each grade level and may include the following:

• Handling peer pressure
• Promotion of high self-esteem
• Local community values
• AIDS education
• Abstinence from sexual activity

 

Parents/guardians have the option of excluding their child/children from the 10-day sex education curriculum. If this is your choice, please complete the opt-out form, and send it to your child’s teacher. Students who are opted-out of sex education will receive an independent study folder with assignments on other health topics and will be located in an alternate supervised location during this class period throughout the 10-day unit.