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1995 SESSION
LD1988382Be 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; restriction on requirement for written notification of opt-out.
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. No school board that implements the family life education program developed by the Board, or a locally developed family life education program, in which the parent or guardian of a child enrolled in the public schools is required by the school board to submit a written notice indicating disapproval of the child’s participation in any part or all of such program, shall impose any requirements in addition to the written notice as a condition for opting out of any part or all of the program. The school board shall require that the parent or guardian submit the notice to the principal of the school in which the child is enrolled. Written notice by the parent or guardian of the child indicating disapproval of the child’s participation in any part or all of the program shall satisfy, in all cases, the school board’s requirement for notification.