Comprehensive Sexual Health Education
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Comprehensive Sexual Health Education at FSD
- What is the California Healthy Youth Act?
- Is Fullerton School District required to teach comprehensive sexual health education?
- Wasn't comprehensive sexual health education already required?
- What else is different about the new law?
- What topics must be taught in junior high?
- What curriculum is used for comprehensive sexual health education in Fullerton School District?
- Does the law allow for abstinence-only education?
- Do parents/guardians need to be informed about comprehensive sexual health education?
- Is the comprehensive sexual health education curriculum presented to students medically accurate?
- How do districts ensure that teachers are prepared to deliver this instruction?
- Who typically provides this instruction?
- Can parents opt-out their child from comprehensive sexual health education?
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Wasn't comprehensive sexual health education already required?
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Wasn’t comprehensive sexual health education already required?
Previously, districts were only required to provide HIV/AIDS prevention once in junior high. Only districts that chose to provide sexual health education were required to do so in a comprehensive, medically accurate, and age appropriate way. Now, we still teach about HIV/AIDS prevention, and we are mandated to include sexually transmitted infections (STIs), formerly known as sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), to the health curriculum. This expansion of the requirements mandates school districts to teach the health risks associated with STIs.
