(cf. 3513.3 - Tobacco-Free Schools)
(cf. 3514 - Environmental Safety)
(cf. 3550 - Food Service/Child Nutrition Program)
(cf. 4020 - Drug and Alcohol-Free Workplace)
(cf. 4119.43/4219.43/4319.43 - Universal Precautions)
(cf. 5141.23 - Infectious Disease Prevention)
(cf. 5141.6 - School-Based Health and Social Services)
The Board believes that health education should foster the knowledge, skills and behaviors that students will need in order to lead healthy, productive lives. Besides understanding the process of growth and development, students should know how to obtain and use health-related information, products and services. They should learn to accept personal responsibility for their own lifelong health and to respect and promote the health of others.
The district shall provide instruction related to the following:
1. Personal health
2. Consumer and community health
3. Injury prevention and safety
4. Alcohol, tobacco and other drugs
5. Nutrition
6. Environmental health
7. Family living
8. Individual growth and development
9. Communicable and chronic diseases
(cf. 6143 - Courses of Study)
The above content areas shall be addressed in a planned, sequential curriculum for students in kindergarten through twelfth grade. Concepts related to mental and emotional health shall be woven throughout the content areas.
Legal Reference:
EDUCATION CODE
233.5 Duty concerning instruction of students
8850.5 Family relationships and parenting education
38085 Sale of specified food items
49413 First aid training
49490 Child nutrition needs
49500 Meals for students
49530 Legislative intent
51201.5 Instruction on AIDS and AIDS prevention
51202 Instruction in personal and public health and safety
51203 Instruction on alcohol, narcotics and dangerous drugs
51210 Areas of study
51220.5 Parenting skills; areas of instruction
51240 Excuse from instruction due to religious beliefs
51260 Appropriately trained instructors
51265 Gang violence and drug and alcohol abuse prevention inservice
51513 Personal beliefs
51550 Sex education courses
51553 Sex education classes; course criteria
51820 Venereal disease instruction; notifications; inspection of materials
51890 Comprehensive health education programs
Management Resources:
CDE PUBLICATIONS
Health Framework for California Public Schools, 1994
Policy ALHAMBRA UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT
adopted: September 9, 1997 Alhambra, California