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1995 SESSION
LD5863812Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That § 22.1-207.1 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:
§ 22.1-207.1. Family life education.
A. The Board of Education shall develop by December 1, 1987,
standards of learning and curriculum guidelines for a comprehensive,
sequential family life education curriculum in grades K through 12. Such
curriculum guidelines shall include instruction as appropriate for the age of
the student in family living and community relationships, the value of
postponing sexual activity, human sexuality, human reproduction, and the
etiology, prevention and effects of sexually transmitted diseases. All such
instruction shall be designed to promote parental involvement, foster
positive self concepts and provide mechanisms for coping with peer pressure
and the stresses of modern living according to the students' developmental
stages and abilities. The Board shall also establish by December 1,
1987, requirements for appropriate training for teachers of family life
education.
By December 1, 1987, the Board of Education shall provide the House
Committee on Appropriations and the Senate Committee on Finance an analysis
of the state and local fiscal impact of implementing a mandatory statewide
family life education program and a recommended apportionment of state and
local funding for such programs if not otherwise determined by law.
B. A local school board may, at its option, implement a family life
education program and procedures for participation in any family life
education program and may adopt, in whole or in part, the Board's
standards of learning and curriculum guidelines or, upon obtaining public
comment from the community, adopt locally developed objectives and
curricula.
C. Every school board shall inform the parents of the procedures for participation in guidance counseling programs as follows:
1. All parents shall be informed that participation in academic guidance counseling programs and career education guidance counseling is required of all students.
2. All parents shall be informed that, if they object to all or any part of group guidance counseling instruction that is not academic or career education guidance counseling, they may return, within a reasonable time designated by the school board, a written note, requiring that their child be excused from all or part of the group guidance counseling program and that the child be given other instruction.
3. All parents shall be informed that, except for an initial contact on an issue, their permission will be required for participation in individual or small-group structured counseling of a personal nature.
D. Other grade-level-appropriate instruction shall be provided to students not participating in the programs in accordance with B or C above. Parents may reverse participation decisions by providing written notification of the new decision to the principal.
E. For the purposes of this section, “parent” means the biological parent or adoptive parent, guardian or other person having control or charge of a child.