Grades 5, 7 and 8 Parent Letter

Parents and guardians will receive a letter about the Family Life program and when it will be occurring in a particular school.  All students are considered to be taking Family Life unless a parent sends a written request to excuse his/her child from the program. This policy is in accordance with the Code of Maryland Regulations for Comprehensive Health Education Instructional Programs. COMAR also requires that if a student is excused from the Family Life program, the student be given alternate learning activities in health education provided by the local school.

Grade 5

• Self-Esteem
• Puberty and HIV/AIDS

Grade 7

• Self-Esteem and Peer Pressure
• Female Puberty and Reproduction
• Male Puberty and Reproduction
• Teen Pregnancy and Sexually Transmitted Diseases
• HIV/AIDS/Abstinence/Quiz

Grade 8

• Decision-Making, Values and Goals
• Female and Male Reproductive Systems
• Conception to Birth and Birth Process
• Challenge of Teenage Pregnancy
• Sexually Transmitted Diseases and HIV/AIDS
• Abstinence
• Sexual Behaviors and the Law (Sexual Harassment, Date/Acquaintance Rape and Sexting)
• Contraception/Abstinence/Quiz